Civil Causes of Action - Trover and Conversion Law and Legal Definition
Trover is an action brought to recover the value of personal items of property, wrongfully converted by another to his own use. The action seeks a remedy for the conversion, not the taking of the item. The remedy sought is the replacement value of the property before it was converted for the other's use.
The defendant in a conversion action is someone who found the item. The defendant cannot be a bailee who lost the item or destroyed it through negligence. In the case of negligent loss, the action is more properly brought as one in negligence. Trover has been replaced by an action for conversion in modern law.
Legal Definition list
- Civil Causes of Action - Trademark or Copyright Infringement
- Civil Causes of Action - Specific Performance
- Civil Causes of Action - Slip and Fall
- Civil Causes of Action - Retaliatory Discharge
- Civil Causes of Action - Replevin
- Civil Causes of Action - Trover and Conversion
- Civil Causes of Action - Wrongful Action
- Civil Civil Rights Violation
- Civil Cognation
- Civil Commitment
- Civil Commotion
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