Conversion The civil wrong (tort) of wrongfully using another's personal property as if it were one's own, holding onto another's property that accidentally comes into one's hands, ...
Conversion definition:
A legal action against a person who found and converted someone else property to his own use.
Related Terms: Trover ...
Conversion; Conversion Rights: Rights allowing the holder of shares of stock or other financial instrument to convert to other shares of stock.
CONVERSION PREMIUM - The amount, expressed as a dollar value or as a percentage, by which the price of the convertible security exceeds the current market value of the common stock into which it may be converted.
Conversion Clause
A provision in some ARMs that allows you to change the ARM to a fixed-rate loan at some point during the term. Usually the conversion is allowed at the end of the first adjustment period.
Conversion:
The action of conversion is a common law legal proceeding for damages by an owner of property against a defendant who came across the property and who, rather than return the property, ...
Conversion: 1. The taking of another's property without permission or cause. It is an unlawful act. 2. In equity, conversion is the exchange of property from real to personal, or vice versa.
Convey: Transfer.
Conversion. Changing into another state or condition.
Trover and conversion. The action for damages for a conversion, maintainable by him who has the right to immediate possession. 3 Bl. Com. 152; 127 Mass. 64.
conversion
n. a civil wrong (tort) in which one converts another's property to his/her own use, which is a fancy way of saying "steals.
Conversion
The act of assuming and exercising right of ownership over personal property belonging to another, altering its condition or excluding the real owner's rights.
Conversion
Definition - Noun
1 a : the act of changing from one form or use to another
b : the act of exchanging one kind of property for another
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Conversion of Property
Conversion is an act that interferes with an owner's right of possession to his or her property.
Conversion Divorce
A conversion divorce is a divorce filed under the grounds of living apart for one year or more for either a judicial separation (DRL 170(5)) or a written separation agreement (DRL 170(6)) as grounds.
Home Equity Conversion
A term referring to a variety of plans designed to help older homeowners use the equity in their homes without requiring them to move. The three main types are sale-leaseback, reverse mortgages, and deferred payment loans.
It is the english conversion of the Latin phrase "post hoc ergo propter hoc" which simply means "after this, therefore because of this".
See also: battery conversion damages defamation fraud libel negligence slander trespass wrongful death assault
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gasification : Conversion of solid material such as coal into a gas for use as a fuel.
where the plaintiff attempts to reclaim specific property, through the court, whether the property is still in the first acquirer's hands or it has passed onto others, and even if the property has been converted (related common law terms: conversion, ...
This attack, which had for its chief object the conversion of arable land into pasture for the sake of sheep-breeding, was the outcome of many causes.
464; and is deemed the owner or proprietor of the thing during the period of the loan; so that au action for a trespass or conversion will lie in favor of the lender against a stranger, who has obtained a wrongful possession, ...
Examples are fraud, deceit, conversion, breach of trust. Tortious Interference Malicious, intentional influence of the customers or employees of another causing loss of business.
A common law action similar to conversion and also involving the possession of property by the defendant but belonging to the plaintiff but in which the plaintiff asks the court for the return of the property, ...
Richy sues Paul for conversion and wins. Paul argues that Richy abandoned his shoes, but the court concludes that Richy did not voluntarily relinquish all rights to their control.
Civil Causes of Action Conversion
Conviction
Civil Causes of Action Defamation and Libel ...
Literally meaning "rights of a third [person]", is a defense in tort law against claims of possession such as detinue, or conversion. It is the acknowledgement of a third party who has better possession than the claimant seeking the action.
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Conversion: Legal proceeding for damages by a property owner against a defendant who found property and converted it to his own use - that is, retained it or otherwise interfered with it.
 See also: Law, Person, Property, Will, Term
  
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