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replevin: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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replevin1 CONSTRUCTReplevinBAKER · 2002

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Law of remedies

Action to recover specific goods wrongfully held

Replevin is a legal action by which a person recovers specific items of personal property that another is wrongfully holding, together with damages for their detention: the plaintiff gets the thing itself back, not merely its value. Baker's An introduction to English legal history traces replevin from its medieval origins in disputes over distrained goods to its place among the forms of action for interfering with chattels. The referent is a possessory remedy aimed at the return of identified goods, distinguished from actions such as trover that award only the value of the property, and it has no meaning outside law.[1]

Unit
An action to recover specific personal property wrongfully detained
Recovery means
The remedy itself is recovery: the return of the specific goods to their rightful possessor.
Measured by
Framed by whether specific identifiable goods are being wrongfully detained and can be returned

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References

  1. Baker, J. H. (2002). An introduction to English legal history (4th ed.). Butterworths LexisNexis. ISBN 9780406930538

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