replevisable, a. Law.
(rɪˈplɛvɪsəb(ə)l)
Also 6–7 -is(s)h-.
[a. AF. replevis(s)able: see replevish v.1 and -able.]
That may be replevied.
| [1275 Stat. Westm. c. 15 La gent que ne sunt mie replevisables, et..ceaus que estoient replevisables.] |
| 1532 Dial. on Laws Eng. ii. xlii. 100 b, If he lette any to repleuyn that be nat repleuisshable & thereof be attaynt, he shall lese the office. 1581 Lambarde Eiren. i. xxiii. 262 It becommeth Iustices of the Peace to be very circumspect in graunting Baile..for feare of wrong by denying it to him that is repleuisable. 1629 in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1659) I. App. 28, I will admit..That a man committed by the King is not replevisable by the Sheriff. 1641 Ibid. iii. (1692) I. 341 Sir Thomas Trevor..did..Declare the said Chambers his Goods not to be Replevisable. a 1683 Scroggs Courts-leet (1714) 92 Cattle taken in Withernam are not replevisable. 1772 Junius Lett. lxviii. (1788) 344 In cases not bailable by a justice of peace, nor replevisable by the common writ. 1818 Scott Rob Roy viii, The felon..not being replevisable under the statute of the 3d of King Edward. |