trover

How did he like it when the live creatures

Tickled and toused and browsed him all over,

And worm, slug, eft, with serious features

Came in, each one, for his right of trover?

The pocket-book was a late present from Mrs Western […] . A prudent person […] would not have offered more than a shilling, or perhaps sixpence, for it; nay, some perhaps would have given nothing, and left the fellow to his action of trover, which some learned serjeants may doubt whether he could, under these circumstances, have maintained.