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Demurrage

is no defence to an action for demurrage that it arose from port regulations, or even from the unlawful acts of the custom-house officers. Demurrage is not, however, claimable for a delay occasioned by the hostile detention … used in commercial navigation, signifying on allowance made to the owners of a ship by the freighter, for detaining her in port longer than the period agreed upon for her sailing. It is usually stipulated in charter-parties

Trespass

Trespass [fr. transgressio, Lat.], any transgression of the law, less than treason, felony, or misprision of either. An unlawful act committed against the person or property of another esp. wrongful entry on another's real property, Black's Law … another is a trespass, for which an action of trespass in assault and will lie. Taking of and detaining a man's goods are respectively trespasses, for which an action of trespass on the case in trover and

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Replevin

Replevin, a personal action to recover possession in specie of goods unlawfully taken (generally, but not exclusively, applicable to the taking of goods distrained for rent), by contesting the validity … Conveyancer 105, 3rd Edn., 1833. Replevin, lies, where specific personal property has been wrongfully taken and is wrongfully detained, to recover possession of the property together with damages for its detention. To support the action it is

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