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Definition of Trover
1. n. The gaining possession of any goods, whether by finding or by other means.
Definition of Trover
1. Noun. (legal) Taking possession of personal property which has been found; also a legal action brought to recover such property by their original owner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trover
1. a type of legal action [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trover
Literary usage of Trover
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"... taken out in connection with a trover suit to recover mules from George Hand
Kidd. The defendant filed a demurrer, which was overruled, and he excepted. ..."
2. The Foundations of Legal Liability: A Presentation of the Theory and by Thomas Atkins Street (1906)
"*HE action of trover is a specialized form of case devised Chapter for the purpose
of recovering damages for the con- version of chattels.1 It was ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Simon Greenleaf, Simon Greenleaf Croswell (1892)
"trover. § 636. Nature of the action. This action, the form of which is fictitious,
is in substance a remedy to recover the value of personal chattels, ..."
4. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"This action of trover and conversion, is an action of trespass on the case, and
lies " against any man who has in his 3VB| Com possession, ..."
5. A Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Actions: With Second and Third Volumes by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening, John A. Dunlap, Edward Duncan Ingraham, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1851)
"trover. Of "• the chattel ; and also the actual possession (1), or the right to
the imme- . plaintiff's First. It may be premised that it is not essential ..."
6. An Abridgment of the Law of Nisi Prius by William Selwyn (1845)
"distress for rent (•), he may maintain trover against the wrongdoer. So trover
will lie by the assignees of a bankrupt against a sheriff (o), ..."
7. The Law of Contracts by Theophilus Parsons, John Melville Gould (1904)
"IN THE ACTION OF trover. »195 In the action of trover to which a plaintiff
generally resorts for remedy when his personal property has been appropriated by ..."
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