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Lat. He detains. In old English law. A species of action of debt, which lay for the specific recovery of goods, under a contract to deliver them. 1 Reeves, Eng. Law, 159. In pleading;. An action of debt is said to be in the detinet when it is alleged merely that the defendant witholds or unjustly detains from the plaintiff the thing or amount demanded. An action of replevin is … [Read more...] about DETINET

A writ, now obsolete, directed to the king's escheators when any of the king's tenants in capite dies, and when his son and heir dies within age and in the king's custody, commanding the escheators, that by the oaths of twelve good and lawful men they shall inquire what lands or tenements by the death of the tenant have come to the king. Dyer, 360; Termes de la Ley. … [Read more...] about DEVENERUNT

In practice. A form of action which lies for the recovery, in specie, of personal chattels from one who acquired possession of them lawfully, but retains it without right together with damages for the detention. The action of detinue is defined in the old books as a remedy founded upon the delivery of goods by the owner to another to keep, who afterwards refuses to redeliver … [Read more...] about DETINUE

A writ formerly available to a wife after a divorce, for the recovery of the goods given with her in marriage Mozley A Whitley. … [Read more...] about DETINUE OF GOODS IN FRANK MARRIAGE

practice. He detained. 2. Where an action of replevin is instituted for goods which the defendant had taken, but which he afterwards restored, it is said to be brought in the detinuit; in such case the judgment is, that the plaintiff recover the damages assessed by the jury for the taking and unjust detention, or for the latter only, where the former was justifiable, and his … [Read more...] about DETINUIT