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detinue
for the recovery of personal property belonging to the plaintiff that is wrongfully detained by the defendant compare trover
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Action
Common Law, p. 1254). For old forms of actions, see under their respective titles-e.g., COVENANT; ASSUMPSIT; TRESPASS; CASE; TROVER; DETINUE; REPLEVIN; EJECTMENT. See also VENUE. The term 'action' is now applied to all proceedings in the Supreme
Chattels or catals
they are injuriously withheld from him he has, in general, no other remedy than by personal action (see TROVER), while a mixed action of ejectment (q.v.), in which the plaintiff could recover the specific property was available
Conversion
Union Credit Bank Cases, (1899) 2 QB 205; Clerk and Lindsell on Torts, 7th ed., ch. xi.; and TROVER.
Droits of admiralty
the Crown in time of war, see PRIZE. The Admiralty jurisdiction in the High Court, however, extends to trover property and ships recaptured from pirates, (English) Judic. Act, 1925, s. 22
Ex delicto
tort or offence). the actions which arose from torts were: (1) trespass on the case; (2) trespass; (3) trover; (4) replevin. Consult Addison, or Clerk and Lindsell, or Pollock on Torts.
Fiction
maxim that in fictione juris semper 'quitas existit. See, e.g., EJECTMENT; FINE; FRACTION OF A DAY; LATITAT; QUOMINUS; TROVER.
Forcible detainer
sufficient amends tendered, the original taking having been lawful; for which injury the remedy usually resorted to was trover (q.v.). But if the original taking were unlawful it is a criminal offence against the public peace, and
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