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The unlawful detention of a personal chattel from another.

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Usage examples (11)
  • A direct Action of detinue, is a personal Action of good Faith, famous, public, which is given
  • In one breath, the court brushed aside technicality; almost in the next breath it used an ancient English form of action “detinue”.
  • "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...
  • Oi account, or detinue, or a£tion upon the cafe at eledion, &c. and where, f.
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