REPLEV

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  REPLEVY. To re-deliver goods which have been distrained to the original 
  possessor of them, on his giving pledges in all action of replevin. It 
  signifies also the bailing or liberating a man from prison, on his finding 
  bail to answer. See Replevin.