Plural of detinue; multiple legal actions or claims to recover wrongfully detained personal property.
From detinue + -s 'plural.' Regular English pluralization of the legal term.
Court records from medieval England show hundreds of detinue cases—they reveal what ordinary people actually valued and fought over: livestock, tools, furniture, cloth. These boring legal documents tell vivid stories of everyday medieval life.
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