Trover
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Taking possession of personal property which has been found. countable, uncountable
"How did he like it when the live creatures Tickled and toused and browsed him all over, And worm, slug, eft, with serious features Came in, each one, for his right of trover?"
- 2 A legal action brought to recover such property by its original owner. countable, uncountable
"The pocket-book was a late present from Mrs Western […]. A prudent person […] would not have offered more than a shilling, or perhaps sixpence, for it; nay, some perhaps would have given nothing, and left the fellow to his action of trover, which some learned serjeants may doubt whether he could, under these circumstances, have maintained."
Example
More examples"How did he like it when the live creatures Tickled and toused and browsed him all over, And worm, slug, eft, with serious features Came in, each one, for his right of trover?"
Etymology
Nominal use of Old French trover (“to find”).
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