Talk:Conversion (law)

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I don't think that the comparison with Trespass to chattels is correct. The difference (in my understanding) is that TTC requires that the owner be in possession at the time the chattel is interfered with. However with conversion, possession is not necessary, there only needs to be an immediate right to possession. Eg. I lend you my bike for a week and you destroy it, as soon as I have a right to get it back a week later I can sue you in conversion, but I can't sue you in TTC b/c I didn't have possession at the time. However, if I kept my bike in the garage and you came over and destroyed it, I could sue you either in TTC or conversion. PullUpYourSocks 22:18, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Um, this page says nothing about which legal systems or jurisdictions it is describing, without which it is of limited use.

Not only that, but I came here because supposedly it's one of the claims FedEx is trying to use to get FedExFurniture.com pulled (that site being a personal website about how this one cash-strapped guy furnishes his apartment using FedEx boxes to make his furniture out of, and being an apparently non-commercial site). I still don't understand how "conversion" legally applies to this (I'm pretty sure he obtained the boxes by either buying them or getting stuff FedExed to him). Part of the reason I don't get the (alleged) connection is actually that this article needs a "plain language" explanation. To most people who aren't in the law profession or studying it, I don't think it would necessarily be all that clear what, when, where and to whom this applies to. 4.238.8.243 18:04, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Apparently it refers rather to American law and is no correct statement of English law! Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detinue#England_and_Wales --129.67.116.167 (talk) 19:00, 27 February 2008 (UTC)