trover

noun /ˈtɹəʊvə/

1. Taking possession of personal property which has been found.

   countable, uncountable

   Tickled and toused and browsed him all over, And worm, slug, eft, with serious features Came in, each one, for his right of trover?

   How did he like it when the live creatures

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.

Where it comes from

Nominal use of Old French trover (“to find”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry trover (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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