trespass de bonis asportatis

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trespass de bonis asportatis - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  trespass de bonis asportatis
      n 1: an action brought to recover damages from a person who has
           taken goods or property from its rightful owner

trespass de bonis asportatis - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  TRESPASS DE BONIS ASPORTATIS, practice. The action brought by the owner of 
  goods for unlawfully taking and carrying them away, is so called. This 
  action will lie for taking away another's goods, even though he should 
  return them, because by such taking he has deprived the owner of his right 
  to enjoy them. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 3611.