noun
a legal procedure to recover goods unlawfully taken
verb
to recover goods through a legal procedure
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The plaintiff filed a replevin action to recover the wrongfully taken property.
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The owner had to go through a replevin process to get their stuff back.
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They had to go through a whole replevin thing to get their things back.
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In a way, going through replevin felt like reclaiming a piece of their identity.