| 单词 | conversion |
| 释义 | conversion conversion the wrong committed by a dealing with the goods of a person that constitutes an unjustifiable denial of his rights in them or his assertion of rights inconsistent with them. Conversion and TRES- PASS overlap. To take away the goods of another will be trespass but also may be conversion. If the taking is temporary, however, and not done to exercise rights over the goods, then there is no conversion. Taking to use the goods is sufficient, it not being necessary to assert ownership over the goods. In English law, it holds that the voluntary receipt by the defendant of the goods from a wrongfully interfering third party is conversion. Abuse of an authorised possession may be conversion – where goods are pawned, for example. Allowing the goods to be stolen through lack of care, being an omission, is not con- version: Ashby v. Tolhurst [1937] 2 KB 242; Tinsley v. Dudley [1951] 2 KB 18. Destruction of the goods or alteration of the goods to another species is conversion. It is not known in Scotland although some- times similar issues arise: Leitch v. Leydon 1931 SC (HL) 1. The closest analogue is SPUILZIE.It is also a CRIME in English law, if fraudulent, under the Theft Act 1968. |
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