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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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