Detinues is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 279 anagrams from letters in detinues (deeinstu).
1425-75; late Middle English detenu Anglo-French detenue, detinue detention, orig. feminine past participle of detenir to detain
In the manor courts, actions of debt, detinue, and covenant were frequent.
detinue, in law, the form of action whereby a plaintiff seeks to recover a chattel personal unlawfully detained.
The use of the action of trover gradually supplants the action of detinue, which involves compurgation.
detinue, the primitive remedy, retained that mark of primitive procedure.