Trover in United States

Trover Definition

(Fr. irowrer, tofind). In practice. A form of action which lies to recover damages against one who has, without right, converted to his own use goods or personal chattels in which the plaintiff has a general or special property. The action was originally an action of trespass on the case where goods were found by the defendant and retained against the plamtiflf’s rightful claim. The manner of gaining possession soon came to be disregarded, as the substantial part of the action is the conversion to the defendant’s use; so that the action lies whether the goods came into the defendant’s possession by finding or otherwise, if he fails to deliver them up on the rightful claim of the plaintiff. It differs from detinue and replevin in this, that it is brought for damages, and not for the specific articles; and from trespass in this, that the injury is not necessarily a forcible one, as trover may be brought in any case where trespass for injury to personal property will lie; but the converse is not true. In case possession was gained by a trespass, the plaintiff, by bringing his action in this form, waives his right to damages for the taking, and is confined to the injury resulting froni the conversion. 17 Pick. (Mass.) 1; 21 Pick. (Mass.) 559; 17 Me. 484; 7 T. B. Mon. (Ky.) 209.

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(Fr. irowrer, tofind). In practice. A form of action which lies to recover damages against one who has, without right, converted to his own use goods or personal chattels in which the plaintiff has a general or special property. The action was originally an action of trespass on the case where goods were found by the defendant and retained against the plamtiflf’s rightful claim. The manner of gaining possession soon came to be disregarded, as the substantial part of the action is the conversion to the defendant’s use; so that the action lies whether the goods came into the defendant’s possession by finding or otherwise, if he fails to deliver them up on the rightful claim of the plaintiff. It differs from detinue and replevin in this, that it is brought for damages, and not for the specific articles; and from trespass in this, that the injury is not necessarily a forcible one, as trover may be brought in any case where trespass for injury to personal property will lie; but the converse is not true. In case possession was gained by a trespass, the plaintiff, by bringing his action in this form, waives his right to damages for the taking, and is confined to the injury resulting froni the conversion. 17 Pick. (Mass.) 1; 21 Pick. (Mass.) 559; 17 Me. 484; 7 T. B. Mon. (Ky.) 209.

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