Definition of "replevying" []

• Present participle of replevy. (verb)

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• "Perhaps this custom was by way of retaliation, by which means the charge of payment of oats and a hen was recovered by the money paid for replevying their cattle, &c. so impounded."
• "Paddy, parting with an untasted bit of tobacco, began and recounted some of Sir Terence O'Fay's exploits in evading duns, replevying cattle, fighting sheriffs, bribing _subs_, managing cants, tricking"
• "As to replevying Yeomans's stock that was arrested by the sheriff, 1 look upon it to be very illegal, because when once any thing is in the custody of the law nothing but a judgm 'of law can remove it."