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Trover

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

trover


[short for action of trover and conversion; Anglo-French trover act of finding (alluding to goods lost by the plaintiff and found by the defendant), from trover to find, from Old French]
: an action at common law to recover the value of chattels or goods wrongfully converted by another to his or her own use compare detinue




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