action pour détournement

OBS: action pour détournement : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

CONT: A form of action in English law, derived from the action on the case (q.v.) taking its name from and based on the fiction that the defendant had found (trouvé) goods and then converted them to his own use. It is now called the action of conversion
CONT: In order to maintain an action for conversion, the plaintiff must have been either in actual possession or entitled to immediate possession of the goods, at the time when the conversion was committed.
OBS: An action for conversion is still commonly called an action of trover.