And if the finder neglects to carry his trover to the Baron, the latter punishes him.
Originally, the action of troverand conversion was limited to goods and chattels, but it is now accepted as applying to valuable securities, such as cheques and bills of exchange.
The use of the action of trover gradually supplants the action of detinue, which involves compurgation.
Trover more than covered the old province of detinue, for which compurgation still existed.
Trover becomes the normal mode of trying the title to moveable goods as the courts oblige the defendant to answer the charge of conversion without permitting him to dispute the loss and finding of the goods by the plaintiff.
And if instead of the thing itself he holds the proceeds of a sale, it is as reasonable to make him pay over its value in trover or assumpsit as it would have been to compel a surrender of the thing.
Harper, and still more obviously from the fact, that the bailee's right to trespass and trover is asserted in the same breath with that of the bailor, as well as proved by express decisions to be cited.
But this is an exception commonly put on the ground that the judgment cannot change the property, as trespass for chattels or trover can.
Under our mill acts a man has to pay for flowing his neighbor's lands, in the same way that he has to pay in trover for converting his neighbor's goods.
If we accept the test of the liability alone, how do we distinguish between trover and the mill acts?
Not a word was spoken for several minutes, and then Paten resumed, but in a calmer and more deliberate tone, "Trover has told me everything.
From this time out nothing was said aloud, but Holmes and his daughter spoke eagerly together in whispers, while Trover sat apart, his head turned towards where the shadow of large mountains indicated the shore of the lake.
Winthrop was moved as he listened, and Trover had to wipe his eyes.
Hour after hour went over, and in their eager discussion of the complicated intrigue they had unravelled, they lost all recollection of Trover or his absence.
Trover said so; and it is so confounding when any one tells the truth!
What Trover cannot, Twist will be certain to accomplish; where Twist fails, there Trover is sovereign.
Trover had just tact enough for the occasion, and was most jocose wherever the point was a perilous one.
On that same morning it was Trover had arrived with Mr. Winthrop, and her first meeting took place with the friend of her late husband,-- perhaps the one living being whom alone of all the world she felt a sort of terror at seeing.
That wretch Trover almost made me laugh with his absurd display of grief.
I was to supply all the funds for present expenses; Mr. Trover to incur all the perils.
That man Trover has taken all the papers away with him, but he 'll turn up some day or other.
Trover put a finger to his lips in sign of secrecy, and said, "You are right there.
I understood the Senator from Virginia [Mr. MASON] to say that it had been decided in several of the courts that an action of trovercould not be brought for a negro slave in England.
On arrest of judgment, resolved that trover would not lie.
What is trover but an action of trespass on the case?
He says it may be so interpreted; that when trover was brought for a slave in England, the judges decided there was no property in man.
Trover gradually supplants detinue, in which there is compurgation.
Trover becomes the normal mode of trying the title to moveable goods as the courts oblige the defendant to answer the charge of conversion without permitting him to dispute the loss and finding.
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.
Even the possibilities of a rich trover would not compensate for having rats running about one's bed at night.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trover" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
