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- noun law, historical An
agent authorised by asheriff to enforce awrit ofreplevin .
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This may appear an inconsiderable sum; but when it is considered that an officer entitled a "replevinger," resides in almost every town, that the stock or implements were not removed from the premises, and that Ring, if he exerted himself, could not be deprived of their use for a _second day_ -- we must admit it was a fair remuneration for his trouble.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various
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