replevy

verb, noun — 3 senses

replevy

verb

/ɹɪˈplɛvi/

Etymology Old French replevir (“recover”), from re- + plevir (probably from a Germanic source which also gave pledge).

1

To return goods to their rightful owner by replevin; to recover goods.

2

Law UK, Obsolete To bail.

I humbly crave your Majestie / It to replevie , and my Sonne reprive1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Derived terms: repleviable, unreplevied

replevy

noun

Etymology Old French replevir (“recover”), from re- + plevir (probably from a Germanic source which also gave pledge).

1

replevin

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