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Definition of Detinue
1. n. A person or thing detained
Definition of Detinue
1. Noun. (legal) A legal action to reclaim goods wrongfully detained. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Detinue
1. an action to recover property wrongfully detained [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detinue
Literary usage of Detinue
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1793)
"In detinue of charters, the defendant faid, that the plaintiff delivered them
... (La 4) Damages in detinue of Charters, what ; Г 66 1 and the Difference ..."
2. Lectures on Legal History and Miscellaneous Legal Essays by James Barr Ames (1913)
"detinue. [in the first place, the count must allege a bailment, and a traverse
of this allegation was an answer to the action.^ Again, detinue could not be ..."
3. A Treatise on Pleading, and Parties to Actions: With Second and Third by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening, John A. Dunlap, Edward Duncan Ingraham, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1859)
"It has been decided that if goods, &c. taken away continue in specie in the hands
of the executor of the wrongdoer, replevin or detinue may be supported ..."
4. The Foundations of Legal Liability: A Presentation of the Theory and by Thomas Atkins Street (1906)
"CHAPTER XII THE ACTION OF detinue. HE action of detinue is that form of the ...
Though in modern times debt and detinue are treated as distinct actions, ..."
5. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1896)
"detinue is a common-law action which lies for the recovery of personal chattels
in specie, where the same are unlawfully detained, or for damages for their ..."
6. An Abridgement of the Law of Nisi Prius by William Selwyn, Edward E. Law, Henry Wheaton, Thomas Isaac Wharton (1857)
"I. Of the Action of detinue, and in what Cases it may be ... THE action of detinue
may be maintained by any person who has either an absolute or a special ..."
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