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Replevy, or Replevish

mainprise on surety; also to re-deliver goods which have been distrained to their owner, upon his giving pledges in an action

Distress Amendment Act, 1908, s. 4, enabling a landlord to distrain on goods comprised in any bill of sale, hire-purchase agreement,

return of cattle to the owner when unjustly taken or distrained, and so found by verdit; it is granted after a

retorno habendo of the cattle replevied, adjudged to him that distrained them, commanding the sheriff to replevy the same cattle again,

pro pluribus h'reitatibus, a writ for an heir who was distrained by the lord to do more suits than one, that

Servitiis acquietandis, a judicial writ for a man distrained for service to one, when he owes and performs them

writ which lay against a sheriff or other officer who distrained in the king's highway, or on lands anciently belonging to

contradistinguished from free alms; for if unperformed the lord could distrain without complaining to the visitor. The statute 12 Car. 2,

land or tenements are holden; who has a right to distrain for rent in arrear, etc., Co. Litt. 57. See Foa

landowner, in which case an officer of the Court might distrain for it. The landowner also, in case of a contract