irreplevisableadj.
/ɪrɪˈplɛvɪzəb(ə)l/ Law.
Not replevisable; that cannot be replevied or delivered on sureties.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [adjective] > carrying out replevin > that may be replevied > not
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1621 Sir R. Boyle in Lismore Papers (1886) II. 10 To distreyn vppon any his own Lands, and to hold yt irreplevizable till I was paid.
a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) iii. 148 Although..a return irreplevisable was awarded to the Lord or Avowant, yet he cannot sell this Distresse, nor work them.
a1676 M. Hale Historia Placitorum Coronæ (1736) II. ii. xv. 129 Those that were irreplevisable at common law.
1821 New Monthly Mag. 1 182 ‘Anne averia carucæ capta in vetito namio sint irreplegibilia’, that is to say, ‘whether beasts of the plough taken in withernam are irreplevisable’.
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