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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

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Eloigned; earried away to a distance. The old torm of the return made by a sheriff to a writ of replevin, stating that the goods or beasts had been eloigned; that is, carried to a distance, to places to him unknown.

3 BI. Comm. 148; 3 Steph. Comin. 522; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 78, 74; Archb. N. Pract. 552.