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n

A common-law tort action to recover damages for personal property that was wrongly converted or for recovery of actual possession of that property. See also detinue and replevin.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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