 | Archibald Brown - 1874 - 510 sider
...wrongful conversion. In form, the action ie a fiction ; in substance, it is a remedy to recover the rabie of personal chattels wrongfully converted by another to his own use. The form supposes tho defendant may have come lawfully by the possession of the goods. This action Нед, and has been... | |
 | Conway Robinson - 1858 - 804 sider
...to be wrong-doers. Rackham v. Jesup &'c. 3 Wils. 338. Lord Mansfield has said of trover, that " in form it is a fiction; in substance a remedy to recover the value of chattels wrongfully converted by another to his own use. The form supposes the defendant may have come... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1875 - 692 sider
...where the goods have been lost or stolen, for there is no actual conversion. Stephens says, trover is a remedy to recover the value of personal chattels wrongfully converted by another to his own use. Chitty says, "The refusal to deliver goods on demand, will not in all caf.es constitute a conversion,... | |
 | Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening - 1876 - 1174 sider
...Mansfield thus defined this action: (I) "Inform it (ie the trover) is a fiction ; in substance it is a remedy to recover the value of personal chattels...converted by another to his own use ; the form supposes that the defendant might have come lawfully by it, and if (e) Frankum v. Earl of Falmouth, 1 Harrison,... | |
 | Archibald Brown - 1880 - 648 sider
...dnmages for the injury which he has sustained by such wrongful conversion. In substance, the remedy is to recover the value of personal chattels wrongfully converted by another to his о«тз ше. The form supposes the defendant may have come lawfully by the possession of the goods.... | |
 | John Hutton Balfour Browne - 1883 - 818 sider
...the defendant, of the goods of the plaintiff. LORD MANSFIELD described this action as being inform a fiction, in substance a remedy to recover the value...chattels wrongfully converted by another to his own use.6 Two things are necessary to be proved to entitle the plaintiff to recover in this kind of action,... | |
 | Ontario. Court of Common Pleas - 1855 - 600 sider
...the plaintiff was not entitled to the possession. Trover is defined by Lord Mansfield to be in form a fiction, in substance a remedy to recover the value...chattels wrongfully converted by another to his own use; and he said that the form supposed the defendant might have come lawfully by the possession of the... | |
 | Francis Taylor Piggott - 1885 - 448 sider
...towards the understanding, and consequently the solution, of the question in this particular case. In form it is a fiction ; in substance a remedy to recover...defendant may have come lawfully by the possession of the iioiuta v. goods. This action lies, and has been brought in many cases where in truth the defendant... | |
 | 1888 - 940 sider
...plaintiff casually lost his goods and the defendants found and appropriated them. In form, the action is a fiction; in substance, a remedy to recover the...form supposes the defendant may have come lawfully in possession of tho goods. To sustain trover, the plaintiff must show a legal title; he must have... | |
 | 1886 - 800 sider
...united in the owner of the inheritance. It may be laid down with respect to this action, that it is in substance a remedy to recover the value of personal...chattels, wrongfully converted by another to his own use; that it does not lie for injuries to land or other real property, even by a severance from the freehold,... | |
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In form it (ie the trover) is a fiction ; in substance it is a remedy to recover the value of personal chattels wrongfully converted by another to his own use... 
