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trover

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tro·ver  (trvr)
n.
A common-law action to recover damages for property illegally withheld or wrongfully converted to use by another.
[From Anglo-Norman, to compose, invent, find, probably from Vulgar Latin *tropre; see troubadour.]
trover [ˈtrəʊvə]
n
(Law) Law (formerly) the act of wrongfully assuming proprietary rights over personal goods or property belonging to another
[from Old French, from trover to find; see trouvère, troubadour]


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A prudent person would, however, have taken proper advantage of the ignorance of this fellow, and would not have offered more than a shilling, or perhaps sixpence, for it; nay, some perhaps would have given nothing, and left the fellow to his action of trover, which some learned serjeants may doubt whether he could, under these circumstances, have maintained.
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