Trover
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trover · action of trover · conversion
in the texts
The Law of Torts
The common law action for wrongful conversion of goods, subject to a special rule on when the limitation period begins to run.
In trover the statute runs from demand on and refusal by the defendant, whether the defendant were the first converter of the plaintiff’s goods or not.
Trespass to land and goods, conversion, and all other common law wrongs (including libel) except slander by words actionable per se and injuries to the person.
if at the time of the wrong done the person entitled to possess was not in actual legal possession, his remedy was detinue, or, in the developed system, trover.
The Genius of the Common Law
A form of action allowing broader defenses through a fictitious allegation of loss and finding, requiring less special pleading than trespass.
or if you prefer to sue in detinue, and state a fictitious delivery or bailment of the goods to the defendant (which fiction he is not allowed to deny), you will have rather more special pleading than in trover, but considerably less than in trespass.