Trover vs Troper - What's the difference?
trover | troper |
(legal) Taking possession of personal property which has been found.
(legal) A legal action brought to recover such property by its original owner.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 431:
As nouns the difference between trover and troper
is that trover is (legal) taking possession of personal property which has been found while troper is one who tropes.trover
English
(wikipedia trover)Noun
(-)- 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.