| 1. | In colonial America, replevin was used more often than detinue.
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| 2. | Glanvill described one action which had features of both debt and detinue.
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| 3. | After Bracton an action in detinue applied, but not in every case.
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| 4. | There were certain defects in detinue sur trover.
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| 5. | In 1315, an action in detinue was allowed for breaking the bulk .
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| 6. | The standard remedy in a detinue action is an order that the property be returned.
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| 7. | Just as forms of assumpsit replaced debt, so in the seventeenth century trover replaced detinue.
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| 8. | In the cases of a chattel damaged or destroyed, the plaintiff must choose some remedy other than detinue.
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| 9. | In modern practice, detinue has been superseded almost entirely by statutory actions for the recovery of personal property.
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| 10. | Detinue against the finder of a charter seems to have found its way into the common law by 1389.
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