Second Deliverance
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A writ which lies for a plaintiff after he has been nonsuited in an action of replevin, in pursuance of which the sheriff must again deliver to the plaintiff the goods that were distrained, on his giving security, as he did in the first instance, to redeliver them, if the distress prove a justifiable one. It is said to have become practically obsolete in England.