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Acts that must be present for a claim in detinue to succeed

Claim options available to a plaintiff in an action in detinue

Conditions for a successful action in detinue

Defences to liability in detinue

Difference between the assessment of damages in an action in detinue as against an action in conversion.

Effect of failure by the plaintiff to establish his claim to ownership of the chattel detained wrongfully

Meaning of detinue

Orders that may be made by a court in an action in detinue

Principles governing the tort of detinue

Remedies available to a plaintiff in an action in detinue

The basic requirement for a successful action in detinue

The basis of an action in detinue

The first matter which must be established in an action for detinue

The gist of liability in detinue

What a party must do in order to sustain an action in detinue

What a plaintiff must prove in an action in detinue

What detinue entails

What it entails

What the plaintiff is entitled to where the chattel detained is one which is normally let out on hire by the plaintiff

When an action in detinue will lie

Whether a defendant will be held liable in detinue where prior to the demand for return of goods in his custody, the goods got lost or destroyed

Whether a defendant will be held liable in detinue where there exists no contractual duty to deliver the goods

Whether a hirer can maintain an action in detinue where the hire purchase agreement has been terminated

Whether a plaintiff is entitled to damages till the judgment of the trial court

Whether a plaintiff must show that he has immediate right to possession of the chattel

Whether a qualified refusal to deliver up goods amounts to wrongful detention where there is a bona fide doubt as to the plaintiff’s right to the goods

Whether an action in detinue lies for wrongful detention

Whether damages can be assessed in an action in detinue without the plaintiff's assistance where the chattel has been lost

Whether damages can be awarded where detinue is not proved

Whether damages for loss of use can be recovered in an action in detinue

Whether damages is recoverable in an action in detinue

Whether it is material how the goods came into the defendant's possession

Whether money can be the subject-matter of an action in detinue

Whether the court can make an order for damages and an order for the return of the chattel in an action for detinue

Whether the defendant can deprive the plaintiff of his right to damages for detention of chattel beacuse he was not earning anything from it

Whether the demand for return of a chattel must be in a particular form

Whether the doctrine of privity of contract is applicable in an action in detinue

Whether the seller liable to pay damages assessed at the full value of the goods In an action in detinue for the return of goods or their value and damages for their wrongful detention

Whether the tort of detinue is concerned with how the defendant came into holding the property of the plaintiff

Whether there is a claim in detinue where refusal to release a chattel is conditional

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