detinue

  • 91forms of action — governed common law pleading and were the procedural devices used to give expression to the theories of liability recognized by the common law. Failure to analyze the cause of action properly, to select the proper theory of liability and to… …

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  • 92ne baila pas — /na bey la pa/ L. Fr. He did not deliver. A plea in detinue, denying the delivery to the defendant of the thing sued for …

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  • 93non detinet — /non detanat/ Lat. He does not detain. The name of the general issue in the action of detinue. The general issue in the action of replevin, where the action is for the wrongful detention only …

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  • 94de cards reddendis — /diy kartas radendas/ For restoring charters. A writ to secure the delivery of charters or deeds; a writ of detinue …

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  • 95distringas — /dsstriijgas/ In English practice, a writ formerly directed to the sheriff of the county in which a defendant resided or had any goods or chattels, commanding him to distrain upon the goods and chattels of the defendant for forty shillings, in… …

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  • 96forms of action — governed common law pleading and were the procedural devices used to give expression to the theories of liability recognized by the common law. Failure to analyze the cause of action properly, to select the proper theory of liability and to… …

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  • 97ne baila pas — /na bey la pa/ L. Fr. He did not deliver. A plea in detinue, denying the delivery to the defendant of the thing sued for …

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  • 98non detinet — /non detanat/ Lat. He does not detain. The name of the general issue in the action of detinue. The general issue in the action of replevin, where the action is for the wrongful detention only …

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  • 99replevin — /raplevan/ An action whereby the owner or person entitled to repossession of goods or chattels may recover those goods or chattels from one who has wrongfully distrained or taken or who wrongfully detains such goods or chattels. Jim s Furniture… …

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  • 100sounding in damages — When an action is brought, not for the recovery of lands, goods, or sums of money (as is the case in real or mixed actions or the personal action of debt or detinue), but for damages only, as in covenant, trespass, etc., the action is said to be… …

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