Excerpt from Practical Treatise on the Law of Replevin in the United States: With an Appendix of Forms, and a Digest of Statutes There is no part of the law, unblended with public jurisprudence or politics, which has been more obviously improved in the United States than Replevin. From the cumbrous weapon, useful only in a narrow field, to which Coke and Gilbert were accustomed, it has, in more than one half of the United States, been fashioned into the ready instrument for the adjustment of all disputes, in regard to the ownership of personal property. In some of the states, Pennsylvania for instance, this improvement has been the result of time, operating upon early colonial customs, occasionally assisted by judicial legislation. In other states, indeed in most of the northern and western states, the law has been codified, and the improvements which experience suggested, introduced; the frame work of the action remaining unchanged. The present work originated in the difficulty which the author experienced, on an occasion in which he was called upon to use the action of replevin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.