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Dictionary Results for replevin:
1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Replevin \Re*plev"in\, v. t. (Law)
   To replevy.
   [1913 Webster]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Replevin \Re*plev"in\ (-?n), n. [LL. replevina. See Replevy,
   and cf. Plevin.]
   1. (Law) A personal action which lies to recover possession
      of goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained.
      Originally, it was a remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful
      distress, but it may generally now be brought in all cases
      of wrongful taking or detention. --Bouvier.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. The writ by which goods and chattels are replevied.
      [1913 Webster]

3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
REPLEVIN, remedies. The name of an action for the recovery of goods and 
chattels. 
     2. It will be proper to consider, 1. For what property this action will 
lie. 2. What interest the plaintiff must have in the same. 3. For what 
injury. 4. The pleadings. 5. The judgment. 
     3.-1. To support replevin, the property affected must be a personal 
chattel, and not an injury to the freehold, or to any matter which is 
annexed to it; 4 T. R. 504; nor for anything which has been turned into a 
chattel by having been separated from it by the defendant, and carried away 
at one and the same time; 2 Watts, R. 126; 3 S. & R. 509 6 S. & R. 4761; 10 
S. & R. 114; 6 Greenl. R. 427; nor for writings which concern the realty. 1 
Brownl. 168. 
     4. The chattel also must possess indicia or ear-marks, by which it may 
be distinguished from all others of the same description; otherwise the 
plaintiff would be demanding of the law what it has not in its power to 
bestow; replevin for loose money cannot, therefore, be maintained; but it 
may be supported for money tied up in a bag, and taken in that state from 
the plaintiff. 2 Mod. R. 61. Vide 1 Dall. 157; 6 Binn. 2; 3 Serg. & Rawle, 
562; 2 P. A. Browne's R. 160; Addis. R. 134; 10 Serg. & Rawle, 114; 4 Dall. 
Appx. i.; 2 Watt's R. 126; 2 Rawle's R. 423. 
     5.-2. The plaintiff, at the time of the caption, must have been 
possessed, or, which amounts to the same thing, have had an absolute 
property in and be entitled to the possession of the chattel, or it could 
not have been taken from him. He must, in other words, have had a general 
property, or a special property, as the bailee of the goods. His right to 
the possession must also be continued down to the time of judgment 
pronounced, otherwise he has no claim to the restoration of the property. 
Co. Litt. 145, b. It has however, been doubted whether on a more naked 
tailment for safe keeping, the bailee can maintain replevin. 1 John. R. 380; 
3 Serg. & Rawle, 20. 
     6.-3. This action lies to recover any goods which have been illegally 
taken. 7 John R. 140; 5 Mass. R. 283; 14 John. R. 87; 1 Dall. R. 157; 6 
Binn. R. 2; 3 Serg. & Rawle, 562; Addis. R. 134; 1 Mason, 319; 2 Fairf. 28. 
The primary object of this action, is to recover back the chattel itself, 
and damages for taking and detaining it are consequent on the recovery. 1 W. 
& S. 513; 20 Wend. 172; 3 Shepl. 20. When the properly has been restored 
this action cannot, therefore, be maintained. But the chattel is considered 
as detained, notwithstanding the defendant may have destroyed it before the 
suit was commenced; for he cannot take advantage of his own wrong. 
     7.-4. This being a local action, the declaration requires certainty in 
the description of the place where the distress was taken. 2 Chit: Pl. 411, 
412; 10 John. R. 53. But it has been held in Pennsylvania, that the 
declaration is sufficient, if the taking is laid to be in the county. 1 P. 
A. Browne's Rep. 60. The strictness which formerly prevailed on this 
subject, has been relaxed. 2 Saund. 74, b. When the distress has been taken 
for rent, the defendant usually avows or makes cognizance, in order to 
obtain a return of the goods to which avowry or cognizance the plaintiff 
pleads in bar, or the defendant may, in proper cases, plead non cepit, cepit 
in alio loco, guilty. 1 Chit. Pl. 490, 491. 
     8.-5. As to the judgment, Vide article Judgment in Replevin. Vide, 
generally, Bac. Ab. h.t.; 1 Saund. 347, n. 1; 2 Sell. Pr. 153; Doct. Pl. 
414; Com. Dig. h.t.; Dane's Ab. h.t.; Petersd. Ab. h.t.; 18 Vin. Ab. 576; 
Yelv. 146, a; 1 Chit., Pl. 157; Ham. N. P. ch. 3, p. 372 to 498; Amer. Dig. 
h.t.; Harr. Dig. h.t.; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t. As to the evidence required 
in replevin, see Roscoe's Civ. Ev. 353. Vide, also, article Detinuit. 



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