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Trover. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Trover Law. [subst. use of OF. trover (11th c.), F. trouver pres. inf., to find.] The act of finding and assuming possession of any personal property; hence (in full, action of trover), an action at law to recover the value of personal property illegally converted by another to his own use.

1   Originally the action was brought for damages against one who had found and refused to give up the goods of the plaintiff on demand; this refusal constituted ‘conversion’ (CONVERSION 7); hence the action was called trovier and conversion. Later, the finding became a legal fiction, and it is now only necessary to prove the ownership and detention of the goods.

2 1594.  West, 2nd Pt. Symbol., Chancerie, § 148. They came to the handes and possession of your poore suppliant … by way of trover.

3 1615, 1712, 1765.  [see CONVERSION 7].

4 1678.  Butler, Hud., III. iii. 648. Whether I should … bring my Action of Conversion And Trover for my Goods?

5 1749.  Fielding, Tom Jones, XII. iv. Some perhaps would have given nothing [for the pocket-book] and left the Fellow to his Action of Trover.

6 1848.  Arnould, Mar. Insur., I. iv. (1866), 195. The policy, when effected, becomes in law the property of the assured, who may maintain trover for it.

7 1876.  Lowell, Among my Bks., Ser. II. 323. In this sense the author of a dictionary might bring an action of trover against every other author who used his words.

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