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 In modern practice, detinue has been superseded almost entirely by statutory actions for the recovery of personal property. 10.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