Replevin is the most effective of all actions for the recovery of specific chattels wrongfully taken or withheld. It lies in favor of the owner of such chattels both for the purpose of recovering the possession of the articles and for damages for their wrongful taking and detention. This action more than any other common law action is regulated by statute in the different states.

1 Street's Foundations of Legal Liability,Vol. III, pp. 159-160