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trover Law.|ˈtrəʊvə(r)|
[subst. use of OF. trover (11th c.), F. trouver pres. inf., to find.]
The act of finding and assuming possession of any personal property; hence (in full, action of trover), an action at law to recover the value of personal property illegally converted by another to his own use.
Originally the action was brought for damages against one who had found and refused to give up the goods of the plaintiff on demand; this refusal constituted ‘conversion’ (conversion 7); hence the action was called trover and conversion. Later, the finding became a legal fiction, and it was only necessary to prove the ownership and detention of the goods.
1594West 2nd Pt. Symbol., Chancerie §148 They came to the handes and possession of your poore suppliant..by way of trover. 1615,1765[see conversion 7]. 1678Butler Hud. iii. iii. 648 Whether I should..bring my Action of Conversion And Trover for my Goods? 1749Fielding Tom Jones xii. iv, Some perhaps would have given nothing [for the pocket-book] and left the Fellow to his Action of Trover. 1848Arnould Mar. Insur. i. iv. (1866) 195 The policy, when effected, becomes in law the property of the assured, who may maintain trover for it. 1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 323 In this sense the author of a dictionary might bring an action of trover against every other author who used his words. |