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. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýappre 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.
»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp plaintiff has no automatic right to the return of the thing (res).
»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp action is against the particular person who allegedly wronged the plaintiff. This is a right ‘in personamâ€� as opposed to a right ‘in remâ€�.