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DETINUE (O. Fr. detenue, from detente...

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 113 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DETINUE (O. Fr. detenue, from detente, to hold back)  , in law, an
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action whereby one who has an absolute or a
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special
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property in goods seeks to recover from another who is in actual possession and refuses to redeliver them . If the
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plaintiff succeeds in an action of detinue, the
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judgment is that he recover the chattel or, if it cannot be had, its value, which is assessed by the judge and
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jury, and also certain damages for detaining the same . An order for the restitution of the specific goods may be enforced by a special writ of execution, called a writ of delivery .

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