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noun 
  1. an action to recover personal property unlawfully taken; the writ or procedure of such action
verb 
  1. (transitive) to replevy
    • 1998: Arranged about her are artificial flowers that appear in their varied pale and pastel colors to be faded from the sun. As if perhaps replevined from some desert grave. " Cormac McCarthy?, Cities of the Plain
Etymology: Anglo-Norman, from Old French replevir "recover", from re- + plevir (apparently from a Germanic word which was also the source of English pledge).

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