(UK, legal, historical) A remedy available to subjects to recover property from the Crown.
(UK, legal, historical) A remedy available to subjects to recover property from the Crown.
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(UK, legal, historical) A legal proceeding in England that enabled lawyers to convert an entailed estate into absolute ownership, fee simple, by means of a legal fiction.
(obsolete, Britain, law) To bail.
To return goods to their rightful owner by replevin; to recover goods.
(UK, law, historical) An inquest undertaken on occasions when the Crown claimed the right of possession to land or property.
(UK, legal, obsolete) Relating to the mere right of property, as distinguished from the right of possession.