Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An action to recover possession or the value of property wrongfully detained.
- noun The writ authorizing such action.
- noun The act of unlawfully detaining personal property.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, an old form of action, now little used, brought to recover possession of specific articles of personal property unlawfully detained.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) A person or thing detained.
- noun (Law) one that lies against him who wrongfully
detains goods or chattels delivered to him, or in possession, to recover the thing itself, or its value and damages, from the detainer. It is now in a great measure superseded by other remedies.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law A legal action to reclaim goods wrongfully detained.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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"To see how the English Reports effect general common law searches, just search from the front page of CommonLII for anything concerning, say, one of the forms of action (eg 'detinue near (ship or vessel)'), then display the results By Database."
Archive 2008-12-01 Michel-Adrien Sheppard 2008
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"To see how the English Reports effect general common law searches, just search from the front page of CommonLII for anything concerning, say, one of the forms of action (eg 'detinue near (ship or vessel)'), then display the results By Database."
More on Free Access to English Reports 1220-1873 Michel-Adrien Sheppard 2008
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In one breath, the court brushed aside technicality; almost in the next breath it used an ancient English form of action “detinue”.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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In one breath, the court brushed aside technicality; almost in the next breath it used an ancient English form of action “detinue”.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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In one breath, the court brushed aside technicality; almost in the next breath it used an ancient English form of action “detinue”.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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A direct Action of detinue, is a personal Action of good Faith, famous, public, which is given
John Adams diary, June 1753 - April 1754, September 1758 - January 1759 1966
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Poindexter brought an action of detinue against the State's treasurer to recover his desk.
Some reminiscences, 1909
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The circuit and supreme courts of the several states, though the slave cases which they tried were for the most part concerned only with such dry questions as detinue, trover, bailment, leases, inheritance and reversions, in which the personal quality of the negroes was largely ignored, occasionally rendered decisions of vivid human interest even where matters of mere property were nominally involved.
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905
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/1/The allegation is simply the usual allegation of actions on the case, and seems to have extended itself from the earlier declarations for damage, when case supplanted detinue and the use of the former action became universal.
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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As before, the breach of duty complained of might be such damage to property as had always been sued for in that form of action, or it might be a loss by theft for which detinue would formerly have been brought, and which fell on the bailee only by reason of the bailment.
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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