detinue 的定义
Law.
- an old commonlaw form of action to recover possession of personal property wrongfully detained.
更多detinue例句
- The use of the action of trover gradually supplants the action of detinue, which involves compurgation.
- Detinue, in law, the form of action whereby a plaintiff seeks to recover a chattel personal unlawfully detained.
- In the manor courts, actions of debt, detinue, and covenant were frequent.
- Detinue, the primitive remedy, retained that mark of primitive procedure.