spuilzie

spuilzie (spuul-yee), n. Scots law.

1. The wrongful taking of corporeal movable property from another’s possession. • This is the Scottish equivalent of common-law conversion.

2. An action to recover wrongfully taken movables, and often for either profits made with them while in the taker’s possession or reparations for unjust dispossession. — Also spelled spulzie; spulyie. — spuilzied, adj.


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