Replevin: A Public Archivist's Perspective

This article suggests that the times are not propitious for measures that would sanction the removal of public documents from public control, that the integrity-or completeness-of a body of records is a fundamental principle of the archival profession, that nothing should be done that would even seem to condone or encourage the theft of records , and that the National Archives, at least, would be disinclined to seek the return of alienated records that are publicly accessible and professionally preserved.