In practice. A form of ac-tion 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. 3 Bl. Comm. 152. Slnnott v. Fel-ock, 165 N. T. 444, 59 N. E. 265. 53 L. R. A. 565, 80 Am. St. Rep. 736; Penny v. Davis
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
