- Get back - Recover (goods) - Retrieve or recover - Salvage - Use again - Win back - To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to
attempt to recover possession of.
- A personal action which lies to recover possession of
goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained. Originally, it was a
remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful distress, but it may generally
now be brought in all cases of wrongful taking or detention. - The writ by which goods and chattels are replevied. - To replevy.
- The gaining possession of any goods, whether by finding or
by other means. - An action to recover damages against one who found goods,
and would not deliver them to the owner on demand; an action which lies
in any case to recover the value of goods wrongfully converted by
another to his own use. In this case the finding, though alleged, is an
immaterial fact; the injury lies in the conversion.