verb
- the present participle of replevin; recovering possession of goods wrongfully taken through legal action
Usage: legal term
Examples
- The lawyer is replevining the client’s seized property.
- They are replevining the goods that were wrongfully detained.
- The court ordered replevining of the disputed merchandise.
- She spent months replevining her father’s estate items.
- The company is replevining equipment taken by creditors.
- Replevining stolen cattle was common in frontier law.