TSEM6007 - Legal background to trusts & estates: the law in England & Wales - personalty (personal property)

Personal property is owned, and consists of chattels real and chattels personal. There are details at TSEM6015.

If a person claims he has been deprived of personal property, the defendant can either

  • return the property; or
  • pay damages.

The plaintiff has no automatic right to the return of the thing (res).

The action is against the particular person who allegedly wronged the plaintiff. This is a right 바카라 사이트˜in personam바카라 사이트™ as opposed to a right 바카라 사이트˜in rem바카라 사이트™.