Definition of trover

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Trover (n.) An action to recover damages against one who found goods, and would not deliver them to the owner on demand; an action which lies in any case to recover the value of goods wrongfully converted by another to his own use. In this case the finding, though alleged, is an immaterial fact; the injury lies in the conversion..

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Contest :: Contest (v. t.) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert..
Difficulty :: Difficulty (n.) A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.
Extroversion :: Extroversion (n.) The condition of being turned wrong side out; as, extroversion of the bladder..
Debate :: Debate (v. t.) Contention in words or arguments; discussion for the purpose of elucidating truth or influencing action; strife in argument; controversy; as, the debates in Parliament or in Congress..
Barmote :: Barmote (n.) A court held in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding controversies between miners..
Controversialist :: Controversialist (n.) One who carries on a controversy; a disputant.
Faser :: Faser (n.) A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy..
Controversor :: Controversor (n.) A controverser.
Clincher :: Clincher (n.) That which ends a dispute or controversy; a decisive argument.
Controversary :: Controversary (a.) Controversial.
Justice :: "Justice (a.) A person duly commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice..
Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) The act of separating, or setting aside, a thing in controversy from the possession of both the parties that contend for it, to be delivered to the one adjudged entitled to it. It may be voluntary or involuntary..
Consistorian :: Consistorian (a.) Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy.
Intricacy :: Intricacy (n.) The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot..
Adjudge :: Adjudge (v. t.) To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor..
Altercation :: Altercation (n.) Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.
Contest :: Contest (n.) Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.
Contentious :: Contentious (a.) Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy.
Arbiter :: Arbiter (n.) A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them..
Controvert :: Controvert (v. t.) To make matter of controversy; to dispute or oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate.
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