noun
- a legal action to recover personal property wrongfully taken or detained
Usage: legal
verb
- to recover (personal property) by legal action
Usage: legal
Examples
- The farmer filed a replevin action to recover his stolen cattle.
- She sought replevin of her grandmother’s jewelry from the estate.
- The court granted replevin, ordering return of the seized equipment.
- He decided to replevin the car that was wrongfully repossessed.
- The lawyer advised using replevin to recover the disputed artwork.
- Replevin proceedings can be faster than other property recovery methods.