Trover:
An old English and common law legal proceeding against a person who had found someone else's property and has converted that property to their own purposes.
Trover: 1. A suit to regain property that was lost, the suit being against the person who found and has held on to the property. 2. A suit for damages against a person who found property and wrongfully converted it to his own use.
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.
TROVER, remedies. Trover signifies finding. The remedy is called an action of trover; it is brought to recover the value of personal chattels, wrongfully converted by another to his own use; ...
Trover eventually replaced the action of detinue.
In the history of common law, trespass is sometimes recognized as the original tort action.
Trover
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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, trover ...
The plaintiff may declare upon a bailment or a trover; but the practice, by the ancient common law, was to allege, simply, that the goods came to the hands, etc., of the defendant without more.
Civil Causes of Action Trover and Conversion
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[Anglo-French detenue, from feminine past participle of detenir to detain see detainer]
: a common-law action for the recovery of personal property belonging to the plaintiff that is wrongfully detained by the defendant
compare trover ...
The innocence of the defendant who took the property is not an issue. It is the conversion that gives rise to the cause of action. This common law action replaced the old action of trover by English law dated 1852. Compare with detinue
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