Trover

There is a veritable treasure trover here, from her securing earmarks for Wasilla to the tune of $30mil, her Troopergate lawyering-up, her one time support for Sen. Stevens, the Bridge to Nowhere, and on and on. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Then again, my civil pro professor spent a month on the common law causes of action, and I doubt I could explain trover at this point. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Note 134: Régime, p. 76: "Vous deves regarder le femme qu'ele soit samblans a le mere tant com ele puet plus, et k'ele ait boinne couleur meslee de rouge en blanc, … et soit sainne tant c'on porra plus trover, car les maladives norrices tuent ains droite eure les enfans." back ❋ Unknown (2005)

Anyway, the lucky lawyer will want to start his memo with a thorough discussion of the law of trover. ❋ Unknown (2006)

If Frank became tenant in tail, in right of his wife, but under his father, would he be able to grant leases for more than twenty-one years? and, if so, to whom would the right of trover belong? ❋ Unknown (2004)

Does not the law recognise it under the definition of trover? ❋ Unknown (2003)

Some fifty years ago there was a curious case of whale-trover litigated in England, wherein the plaintiffs set forth that after a hard chase of a whale in the Northern seas; and when indeed they ❋ Unknown (2002)

The number of works hitherto undescribed that has been brought to light during the last sixty years must be considerable; and one still hears every now and then of some rich trover that has been unearthed. ❋ P. B. M. Allan (N/A)

Even the possibilities of a rich trover would not compensate for having rats running about one's bed at night. ❋ P. B. M. Allan (N/A)

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. ❋ Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1905)

When, by rights of flotsam and jetsam and gift and trover, she became the proud possessor of her little yellow boat, the day rarely passed without her flitting across to spend part of it at Beaumanoir or Belfontaine, unless the weather bottled her up on Brecqhou. ❋ John Oxenham (1896)

Again, in trover for the conversion of another's chattel, where the dominion exercised over it was of a slight and ambiguous [144] nature, it has been said that the taking must be "with the intent of exercising an ownership over the chattel inconsistent with the real owner's right of possession." ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1888)

But on whatever ground Lotan v. Cross may stand, if on any, it cannot for a moment be admitted that borrowers in general have not trespass and trover. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1888)

The chief forms of liability in which fraud, malice, and intent are said to be necessary elements, are deceit, slander and libel, malicious prosecution, and conspiracy, to which, perhaps, may be added trover. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1888)

Accordingly, it has been expressly decided, where a man found logs afloat and moored them, but they again broke loose and floated away, and were found by another, that the first finder retained the rights which sprung from his having taken possession, and that he could maintain trover against the second finder, who refused to give them up. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1888)

It is hard to believe that, if the defendant had stolen the bills from the safe while it was in the owner's hands, the property could not have been laid in the safe-owner,/2/or that the latter could not have maintained trover for them if converted under those circumstances. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1888)

There may be some exceptions to these general statements as to property, but when we recollect how land monopoly and other monopolies have robbed the commonwealth, I hold that the commonwealth is bound to reclaim the stolen wealth wherever it can find it, and certainly wherever the commonwealth can find it abandoned by the claimant, the action of trover should come in when the tenant for life has ceased to exist. ❋ Various (1888)

It has been supposed, to be sure, that a "special property" was necessary in order to maintain replevin/2/or trover. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1888)

If we accept the test of the liability alone, how do we distinguish between trover and the mill acts? ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1888)

"Would you [please] [excuse me] i [have to] take a Trover" ❋ Trevor.p (2007)

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you're [sooo] a [trover] ❋ RSNS111 (2018)