REP 
REP 
Jisconrse, or at least one of them. The 
nature and design of this figure is to make 
deep impressions on those we address. It 
expresses anger and indignation, full assu- 
rance of what we affirm and a vehement 
concern for what we have espoused. 
REPLEVIN, in law, is a writ by him, who 
has cattle or other goods distrained by ano- 
ther, for any cause. If he wishes to dispute 
the propriety of the distress, he sues this writ, 
and upon putting in surety to the sheriff', 
that upon delivery of the thing distrained, 
he will prosecute the action against the dis- 
trainer, the cattle or goods are delivered 
back, and said to be replevied. In this 
writ, of action, both the plaintiflF and de- 
fendant are called actors ; the one, that is 
the plaintiflF, suing for damages, and the 
defendant, who is also called avowant, to 
have a return of the goods or cattle. 
Replevins by writ issue properly out of 
Chancery, returnable into the courts of 
King’s Bench and Common Pleas at West- 
minster. 
After the goods are delivered back to 
the party replevying, he is bound to bring 
his action of replevin against the distrainer; 
which may be prosecuted in the county 
court, be tlie distress of what value it may : 
but either party may remove it to the su- 
perior courts of King’s-Bench or Common- 
Pleas, the plaintiflF at pleasure, and the 
defendant upon reasonable cause. 
If the sherilF is shown a stranger’s goods, 
and he takes them, an action of trespass 
lies against him, for otherwise he could 
have no remedy ; lor being a stranger, he 
cannot have the writ de proprietate pj'o- 
barula, and were he not entitled to this 
remedy, it would be in the power of the she- 
riff to strip a man’s house of all his goods. 
If the replevin be determined for the 
plaintiff, namely, that the distress was 
wrongfully taken, he has already got liis 
goods back into his owi^ possession, and shall 
keep them, and recover damages. But if 
the defendant prevail, by the default or 
non-suit of the plaintiff, then he shall have 
a writ de returno habendo, or to have a 
return, whereby the goods or chattels, 
which were distrained and then replevied, 
are retnrned again into his custody, to be 
sold, or otherwise disposed of, as if no re- 
plevin had been made. If the distress 
were for damage feasant, that is, for cattle 
breaking through fences, and coming upon 
the land of the party, the distrainer may 
keep the goods so returned, until tender 
shall be made of sufficient amends. 
REPLICATION, a law term, signifying 
a part of the pleadings upon the record, 
being the plaintiff’s answer to the de- 
fendant’s pleas. 
REPRIEVE, an order to suspend a pri- 
soner from the execution and proceeding 
of the law for a time. Every judge, who 
has power to order any execution, has 
power to reprieve. 
REPRISE, or Reprize, at sea, is a 
merchant ship which, after its being taken 
by a corsair, privateer, or other enemy, 
is retaken by the opposite party. If a ves- 
sel thus retaken has been twenty-four hours 
in the possession of the enemy, it is deemed 
a lawful prize ; but if it be retaken within 
that time, it is to be restored to the pro- 
prietor. with every thing therein, upon liLs 
allowing one-third to the vessel who made 
the reprise. Also if the reprise has been 
abandoned by the enemy, either in a tem- 
pest or from any other cause, before it has 
been led into any port, it is to be restored 
to the proprietor. 
REPRODUCTION is usually understood 
to mean the restoration of a thing before 
existing, and since destroyed. It is very 
well known tliat trees and plants may be 
raised from slips and cuttings; and some 
late observations have shown, that there 
are some animals which have the same pro- 
perty. The polype (See Hydra) was the 
first instance we had of this kind ; but we 
had scarcely time to w'onder at the discovery 
M. Trembley had made, when M. Bonett 
discovered the same property in a species 
of w'ater-worm. Amongst the plants which 
may be raised from cuttings, there are some 
which seem to possess this quality in so 
eminent a degree, that the smallest portion 
of them will become a complete tree again. 
A twig of willow, poplar, or many other 
trees, being planted in the earth, tabes 
root, and becomes a tree, every piece of 
which will in the same manner produce 
other trees. The case is the same with 
these worms ; they are cut to pieces, and 
these several pieces become perfect ani- 
mals ; and each of these may be again cut 
into a number of pieces, each of which will 
in the same manner produce an animal. 
It has been supposed, by some that these 
worms were oviparous ; but M. Bonett, on 
cutting one of them to pieces, having ob- 
served a slender substance, resembling a 
small filament, to move at the end of one 
of the pieces, separated it ; and on examin- 
ing it with glasses, found it to be a perfect 
worm, of the same form with its parent 
