A type of legal action where the owner of movable goods is given the right to recover them from someone who shouldn’t have them. Replevin is often used in disputes between buyers and sellers — for example, a seller might bring a replevin action to reclaim goods from a buyer who failed to pay for them.
- legal An action to recover personal property unlawfully taken, especially that seized by way of distraint; The writ or procedure of such action.
- To replevy
A procedure whereby seized goods may be provisionally restored to their owner pending the outcome of an action to determine the rights of the parties concerned.
n. under common law, the right to bring a lawsuit for recovery of goods improperly taken by another. In almost all US states the term replevin in no longer used, since the states have adopted “one cause of action” for all civil wrongs.
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