| 单词 | detinue |
| 释义 | detinue detinue a form of action in TORT, now defunct, that allowed a bailor (see BAILMENT) to sue a bailee or a person entitled to possess a thing to sue a person in actual possession of it, giving the plaintiff the right to recover the thing or, in the event of a failure, to be able to return it through lack of care by the defendant, its value. The same right of action now exists as a form of conversion, which is itself a form ofINTERFERENCE WITH GOODS. |
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