Law Dictionary

A writ of replevin.

You cause to be replevied. In old English law. The original writ in the action of replevin; superseded by the statute of Marlbridge, c. 21. 3 Bl. Comm. 146.

I. I. In old English law. To take back a pledge; to replevy; to take back on pledge, or surety; to replevy a man. v. De homine, eta

To fill again; to fill up. To replenish a stock of goods means to fill up the stock as reduced by sales. The word necessarily implies exhaustion, reduction or diminution in quantit

In canon law. Where the revenue of a benefice ls sufficient to fill or occupy the whole right or title of the graduate who holds it. Wharton.

I. fr. In old English law. To replevy.

Property Is said to be replevlable or re-plevisable when proceedings in replevin may be resorted to for the purpose of trying the right to such property.

By the replevin, the securities in the bond are substituted in the place of the goods, which are restored to the tenant, as his sole property; he may sell them; they may be taken i

A personal action to recover possession of goods wrongfully taken, — originally the peculiar remedy in cases of wrongful distress, available upon security given for trial of the ri

A bond filed to indemnify the sheriff and the defendant or the party in custody of the goods against loss or damage upon their delivery to the plaintiff. See 8 Colo. 90, 5 Pac. 803

Replevin for taking goods, not for keeping them.

I fr. In old plevy; to let go, on bail.

In old English law. To let one to mainprise upon surety. Cowell.

The plaintiff in a replevin action.

Subject to an action of replevin.

To redeliver goods which have been distrained to the original possessor of them, on his giving pledges in an action of replevin. It signifies, also, the bailing or liberating a man

1. A replevy bond under the act operated a release of the property. 2. Because the surety therein is to be approved by the creditor: a circumstance very material in a bond consider

A plaintiff who files a replication.

A litigant who replies or files or delivers a replication.

Lat In the civil law and old English pleading. To reply; to answer a defendant's plea.

Replication.

Legal effect of a replication is, that it puts in issue all the matters well alleged in the answer, and the rule is, that if none be filed, the answer will be taken as true, and no

In its general sense, a reply is what the plaintiff, petitioner, or other person who has instituted a proceeding says in answer to the defendant's case. In Code Pleading. The secon

In Scotch practice. To replace; to restore to a former state or right. 2 Alls. Crim. Pr. 351.

Held to mean more than pecuniary ability and to include judgment, skill, ability, capacity and integrity, when applied to bidders. See 16 Mont. 145, 50 Am. St. Rep. 476, 28 L. R. A

The term “repo participant” means an entity that, at any time before the filing of the petition, has an outstanding repurchase agreement with the debtor.

As used in this paragraph, the term “report” means, with respect to the Commission, a report, designation, or statement required by this Act to be filed with the Commission. / Defi

The term “reportable acquisition” means the acquisition by an applicable exempt organization of a direct or indirect interest in any applicable insurance contract in any case in wh

The term "reportable death benefits" means amounts paid by reason of the death of the insured under a life insurance contract that has been transferred in a reportable po

The term “reportable event” means— (i) the creation of any foreign trust by a United States person, (ii) the transfer of any money or property (directly or indirectly) to a foreign

The term “reportable food” means an article of food (other than infant formula) for which there is a reasonable probability that the use of, or exposure to, such article of food wi

The term “reportable interest or dividend payment” means any payment of a kind, and to a payee, required to be shown on a return required under— (i) section 6049(a) (relating to pa

The term “reportable payment” means— (A) any reportable interest or dividend payment, and (B) any other reportable payment.

The term “reportable payment transaction” means any payment card transaction and any third party network transaction.

For purposes of this paragraph, the term "reportable policy sale" means the acquisition of an interest in a life insurance contract, directly or indirectly, if the acquir

The term “reportable transaction” has the meaning given to such term by section 6707A(c). / The term “reportable transaction” means any transaction with respect to which informatio

The term “reportable transaction understatement” means the sum of— (A) the product of— (i) the amount of the increase (if any) in taxable income which results from a difference bet

To report.

The term “reported capital gain dividend amount” means the amount reported to its shareholders under clause (i) as a capital gain dividend.

The term “reported exempt-interest dividend amount” means the amount reported to its shareholders under clause (i) as an exempt-interest dividend.

The term “reported interest related dividend amount” means the amount reported to its shareholders under clause (i) as an interest related dividend.

The term “reported item” means any item for which information is required to be furnished under subsection (a).

The term “reported short-term capital gain dividend amount” means the amount reported to its shareholders under clause (i) as a short-term capital gain dividend.

A person who reports the decisions upon questions of law in the cases adjudged in the several courts of law and equity. Wharton.

COUNCIL OF LAW. The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales has charge of reporting and publishing the cases in those two countries.

the term “reporting activity level” means transactions in publicly traded securities at or above a level of volume, fair market value, or exercise value as shall be fixed from time

The term “reporting company”— (A) means a corporation, limited liability company, or other similar entity that is— (i) created by the filing of a document with a secretary of state

The term “reporting day” means a day on which— (A) a packer conducts business regarding livestock committed to the packer, or livestock purchased, sold, or slaughtered by the packe

For purposes of this paragraph, the term “reporting period” means the 6-month period for which a report under this paragraph is made, except that the first reporting period shall b

That communication which the chairman makes to the house upon the close of the investigation in which the committee has been engaged.

Formerly a department of the English court of chancery. Whart

that certain report of the Engineering Advisory Committee dated January 1948, and all appendices thereto; including, basic data, processes, and analyses utilized in preparing that

the term “report of the Lowell Historic Canal District Commission” means the report submitted to the Congress by the Lowell Historic Canal District Commission pursuant to an Act en

The term “report of usage” means a report reflecting an entity’s usage of musical works in covered activities described in subsection (d)(4)(A).

In old were by a second view laid to the forest again, — put back into the forest. Manw. For, Law; Cowell.

A storehouse or place wherein things are kept; a warehouse. Cro. Car. 555.

The term “repository” means any system licensed by the Commission that is intended to be used for, or may be used for, the permanent deep geologic disposal of high-level radioactiv

The term “repowering” means replacement of an existing coal-fired boiler with one of the following clean coal technologies: atmospheric or pressurized fluidized bed combustion, int

reprendre, Represt, reprist: taken Representation. The place of another; the person take the share would have taken or Df facts as to the parties to the other, character of the ris

“represent” means to describe one or more of a fastener's purported characteristics in a document or statement that is transmitted to a purchaser through any medium;

In Practice. A doctrine by which a particular party, though not before the court in person, is so far represented by others that his interest receives such actual and efficient pro

Scotch law. The name of a plea or statement presented to a lord ordinary of the court of sessions, when his judgment is brought under. review.

A fiction of the law, the effect of which is to put the representative in the place, degree, or right of the person represented. The heir represents his ancestor (Bae. Abr. "Heir a

one who is not only elected by the people, but who also, at a minimum, acts on behalf of the people.

An action in behalf of the plaintiff and others similarly situated.

A representative action or suit is one brought by a member of a class of persons on behalf of himself and the other members of the class.

A representative action or suit is one brought by a member of a class of persons on behalf of himself and the other members of the class. In the proceedings before judgment the pla

Books and records kept 'in a representative rather than in a personal capacity cannot be the subject of the personal privilege against self-incrimination, even though production of

Books and records kept 'in a representative rather than in a personal capacity cannot be the subject of the personal privilege against self-incrimination, even though production of

A form of government where the powers of the sovereignty are delegated to a body of men, elected from time to time, who exercise them for the benefit of the whole nation. 1 Bouv. I

our system of representative litigation, in which each party is deemed bound by the acts of his lawyer-agent and is considered to have 'notice of all facts, notice of which can be

the term “representative office” means any office of a foreign bank which is located in any State and is not a Federal branch, Federal agency, State branch, or State agency;

representative of agency [management]," and that this issue is now uncontested.

the term “representative of the homeless” means a State or local government agency, or private nonprofit organization, which provides services to the homeless; and

In this section, the term “representative of the President” means the following: (1) Any official of the Department of Defense or the Department of Energy who is appointed by the P

"representative payee" means a person (including an organization) designated under section 8345(e)(1) to receive payments on behalf of a minor or an individual mentally i

Those who, at the commencement of every new parliament, are elected to represent Scotland and Ireland in the British house of lords. Brown. REPRIEVE (from Fr. reprendre, to take ba

those who "are chosen by popular election." "Ante," at 399.

For purposes of this section, the term “representatives of the Administrator” means representatives of the national flood insurance program who participate in the appeals process e

it is undoubtedly within the power of a court of equity to name as defendants a few individuals who are in fact the representatives of a large class having a common interest or a c

For purposes of this clause, the term “represented beneficiary” means an individual— (aa) who is entitled to benefits under this subchapter, subchapter VIII, or subchapter XVI; and

For purposes of this paragraph, the term "represented minor beneficiary" has the meaning given such term in subsection (j)(11)(B)(iii).1

A reprieve (from reprendre, to take back), is the withdrawing of a sentence for an interval of time; whereby the execution is suspended. This may be, first ex arbitrio judicis; eit

Tbb censure which in some cases a public officer pronounces against an offender. This species of punishment is used by legislative bodies to punish their members or others who have

See Letters of marque and reprisal .

represalia, civil atid old maritime

The forcibly taking a thing by one nation which belonged to another, in return or satisfaction for an injury committed by the latter on the former. Vattel, bk. 2, c. 18, § 342; 1 B

The deductions and payments out of lands, annuities, and the like are called "reprises," because they are taken back. When we speak of the clear yearly value of an estate, we say i

Censure; obloquy. See 70 Cal. 270, 11 Pac. 713.

Money refused releases the one paying, i. e., tendering.

In ecclesiastical - law. The propounding exceptions either against facts, persons, or things; as, to allege that certain deeds or instruments have not been duly and lawfully execut

ACTION OF. In Scotch law. An action or proceeding intended to convict a witness of perjury, to which the witness must be made a party. Bell, Diet.

(Lat.) In old English law. Bad or spurious; reprobate. A term applied to money which might be rejected or refused.

the terms “copy”, “fixed”, “musical work”, “phonorecord”, “reproduce”, “sound recordings”, and “transmit” mean those terms within the meaning of title 17; and

Reproduction value, however, is not a matter of outlay, but of estimate, and should include a reasonable allowance for organization and other overhead charges that necessarily woul

The term “reproductive health services” means reproductive health services provided in a hospital, clinic, physician’s office, or other facility, and includes medical, surgical, co

In old records. Money paid by servile tenants for exemption from the customary duty of reaping for the lord. Cowell.

In old English law. Money paid by servile tenants for exemption from the customary duty of reaping for the lord.

A commonwealth; thkt form of government in which the administration of affairs is open to all the citizens. In another sense, it signifies the state, independently of its form of g

questions arising under it are political, not judicial, in character, and thus are for the consideration of the Congress and not the courts