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Second Deliverance, Writ Of

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Definition

Second deliverance, Writ of, a judicial writ that lies, after a non suit of the plaintiff in replevin, and a retorno habendo of the cattle replevied, adjudged to him that distrained them, commanding the sheriff to replevy the same cattle again, upon security given by the plaintiff in the replevin for the re-delivery of them if the distress be justified. It is a second writ of replevin, and is practically obsolete, Fitz. N.B. 68

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