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Eloign

A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889

A Dictionary of Law

3 When the sheriff seeks to replevy goods distrained, and finds them carried out of the county, or concealed, he may return that they ai'e eloigned, elongata, carried to a distance, to places to him unknown.* See Capere, Capias, Withernam. When, under ancient practice, he sought to replevy a man and found him conveyed out of bailiwick he made return that the person was elongatus.'

Eloignment.

Removal of goods distrained, to prevent a replevy.

Sloiguer.

He who makes an eloign ment.