 | Joseph Chitty - 1809 - 550 σελίδες
...this action :(() " Inform it (ie the trover) is a fiction ; " in subntance it is a remedy to recover the value of personal " chattels wrongfully converted by another to his own use ; the " form supposes that the defendant might have come lawfully " by it, and if he did not, yet by bringing this action,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, James Burrow - 1812 - 604 σελίδες
...of the question in this particular case. ID form it is a fiction : in substance a remedy to recover the value of personal chattels wrongfully converted...truth, the defendant has got the possession lawfully Where the defendant takes them wrongfully, and by trespass, the plaintiff, if he thinks fit to bring... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, James Burrow - 1812 - 662 σελίδες
...question in this particular сазе. '* Inform it is a fiction : in substance a remedy to recover the value of personal chattels wrongfully converted...another to his own use. The form supposes the defendant m:iy have come lawfully by the possession of the goods. :T4ii^aetion lies, and haa been brought in... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, James Burrow - 1812 - 450 σελίδες
...TROVER Is a fiction, -in its form : but in its substance, a remedy, i. 31. It is a remedy to. recover the value of personal chattels, wrongfully converted by another to his own use. i. 31. The form supposes that the defendant may have come lawfully by the goods, i. 31. And it lies... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Thomas Sergeant, William Rawle - 1821 - 648 σελίδες
...below from a lot of land claimed by the plaintiffs. This action is in substance a remedy to recover the value of personal chattels, wrongfully converted by another to his own use. The plaintiff must have a pro^ perty in the chattel^ general or special, and the actual possessiog, or... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Peregrine Bingham - 1828 - 810 σελίδες
...to an action of trespass, although he might properly be held responsible in trover, for he says : " This action lies, and has been brought in many cases...truth the defendant has got the possession lawfully ; where the defendant takes them wrongfully, and by trespass, the plaintiff, if he thinks fit to bring... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore, Joseph Payne - 1828 - 878 σελίδες
...a remedy to recover the value of personal chattels wrongfully converted by another to his own use: and has been brought in many cases, where, in truth, the defendant has got the possession lawfully;—that it is an action of tort, and that the whole tort consists in the wrongful conversion,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore, Joseph Payne - 1828 - 864 σελίδες
...Burroiv, is made to say, that (a) " trover is in form, a fiction; in substance, a remedy to recover the value of personal chattels wrongfully converted by another to his own use: and has been brought in many cases, where, in truth, the defendant has got the possession lawfully;—that... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer - 1834 - 1058 σελίδες
...of the question in this particular case. In form it is a fiction ; in substance a remedy to recover the value of personal chattels wrongfully converted...in many cases where in truth the defendant has got possession lawfully." " Hence (he adds) if the defendant delivers the thing upon demand, no damages... | |
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In form it is a fiction : in substance, a remedy to recover the value of personal chattels wrongfully converted by another to his own use. 
