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REPLEVIN [8 records]

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Record 1 2015-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Document Classification (Library Science)
  • Records Management (Management)
DEF

The writ and legal act by which an institution or person takes over [records, archives, or manuscripts]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Classification des documents (Bibliothéconomie)
  • Gestion des documents (Gestion)
DEF

[...]acte par lequel le conservateur d'un dépôt d'archives assume la responsabilité de la conservation de documents qu'il acquiert pour son dépôt.

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

To recover (cattle or goods) by replevin.

CONT

Replevy. The recovery of goods persuant to a writ of replevin; to get delivery of goods that had been kept from rightful owner; to recover chattels as a result of replevin.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)

Spanish

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Record 3 2010-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal Actions
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Rules of Court
CONT

A writ empowering a person to recover his goods by replevin.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Actions en justice
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Règles de procédure

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Acciones judiciales
  • Derecho de propiedad (common law)
  • Reglamento procesal
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Record 4 2010-10-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

A process at common law to obtain the redelivery to an owner of chattels wrongfully distrained or taken from him, normally in satisfaction of rent allegedly due and unpaid, on his finding sufficient security for the rent and costs of action, and undertaking that he will pursue an action against the distrainer to determine the latter's right to distrain.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
  • Derecho de propiedad (common law)
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Record 5 2010-10-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

The ... recovery by a person of goods or chattels distrained or taken from him, upon his giving security ....

CONT

In cases of distress for rent the replevy should be made before the expiration of five days ... after the distress, otherwise the distrainer may sell the goods ....

OBS

replevy: Now rare.

Key term(s)
  • recapture of property

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)

Spanish

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Record 6 2006-11-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Property Law (civil law)
DEF

... a legal procedure for claiming the right to have personal property returned from the possession of one who had less right to hold it than the plaintiff.

CONT

replevin: A legal remedy by which one party can take specific property from another party pending a decision as to who has the right to possess it. The party thus getting possession must post a bond. The party from whom the property was replevied can in some states get it back by a counter action in replevin plus a bond. The action does not decide who owns the property, but merely who has the right to possession.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (droit civil)
OBS

action mobilière ou immobilière en recouvrement de la possession, exercée par le possesseur évincé sans droit, par violence ou par voies de fait [...]

Spanish

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Record 7 1991-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit

Spanish

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Record 8 1988-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

The restoration to ... a person of goods or chattels distrained or taken from him, upon his giving security ....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)

Spanish

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