Detinuit
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In pleading. An action of replevin is said to be in the detinuzt when the plaintiff acquires possession of the property claimed by means of the writ. ‘The right to retain is, of course, subject in such ease to the judgment of the court upon his title to the property claimed.
Bull. N. P. 521.