Crossword-Solution: REPLEVY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Replevy | v. t. | To take or get back, by a writ for that purpose (goods and chattels wrongfully taken or detained), upon giving security to try the right to them in a suit at law, and, if that should be determined against the plaintiff, to return the property replevied. |
| Replevy | v. t. | To bail. |
| Replevy | n. | Replevin. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with REPLEVY (5)
The next day, after breakfast, he said,-- "I have made up my mind: I will have twenty-five thousand francs, or keep the matter before the courts till my dying day." I answered that he would find the sum in the hands of Madame d'Urfe's solicitor, and that he could receive it as soon as he had given replevy on the bail at the Fort l'Eveque.
The next day, after breakfast, he said,-- “I have made up my mind: I will have twenty-five thousand francs, or keep the matter before the courts till my dying day.” I answered that he would find the sum in the hands of Madame d’Urfe’s solicitor, and that he could receive it as soon as he had given replevy on the bail at the Fort l’Eveque.
But suppose that at his return he should find his own cattle in that pound, would he now carry it toward them as he did unto the other? No, no; he has interest here, they are his that are in the pound; now he is concerned, now he must know who put them there, and for what cause too they are served as they are; and if he finds them rightfully there, he will fetch them by ransom; but if wrongfully, he will replevy7 them, and stand a trial at law with him that has thus illegally pounded his cattle.
Simon was ordered to replevy that land to Odo as well as the chattels and to treat him rightfully in his court.
Alas, upon me every day The heaviest costs you levy: Oh, give me back my heart--but nay! I feel I can't replevy.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1965).