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No more questions, like the one on Virginia’s recent exam, about how to use a local rule called “detinue” to recover Colonel Riles E. Plumlee’s ceremonial sword.

The action of detinue lies where the party claims the specific recovery of goods and chattels, or deeds and writings detained from him.

Of personal actions, the most common are the following—Debt, covenant, detinue, trespass, trespass on the case, replevin.

The action of trover differs from detinue inasmuch as the party claims damages, not the recovery of the identical goods and chattels.

The names of trover, detinue, trespass, give no information to the defendant; the substantial cause of action is stated in the declaration, and these names are mere useless additions.