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withernam

CIDE DICTIONARY

withernamn. [AS. wi&edh;ernām; wi&edh;er against + nām a seizure, fr. niman to take.].
     A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return.  Blackstone.  [1913 Webster]

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