»replevin

Today I encountered another legal term: replevin means "An action to recover personal property said or claimed to be unlawfully taken." Apparently having a writ of replevin can help one regain property unlawfully taken (!!).

I do miss that bicycle. The poor Kogswell sure had a lot to live up to. That bike, in one fixed-gear incarnation or another, rode Marin fire trails, down Highway One (and, in fact, up that damn highway all the way to Point Reyes, one brutal and blisteringly windy summer day in '00 or '01), and got me to and from bookstores, friends' places, markets, parks, and pretty much anywhere I wanted to go.