Old Common Law Pleadings

• Property
• Personal property
• Replevin: return
• Trover: damages
• Real property
• Ejectment: return of property
• Trespass: damages

• (Contracts)
• Assumpsit
• Debt (?)
• (Torts)
• Trespass
• Trespass on the case
• Conversion (over property)
• Trover (damages for wrongful taking)
• Replevin (creditor’s right for unlawful withholding)
• Nuisance (?)