Cuss 'em, the state would be a nation sight better sarved, if one o' these old rooks was sent out to try Trover for a goose, and larceny for an old hat, to Nova Scotia, and you was sent for to take the ribbons o' the state coach here; hang me if it wouldn't.
"The Attache or, Sam Slick in England, Complete"
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Trespass on the case has now branched into assumpsit, Trover, deceit, negligence, and libel and slander.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly
Trover becomes the normal mode of trying the title to moveable goods as the courts oblige the defendant to answer the charge of conversion without permitting him to dispute the loss and finding.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly