A study of the

TORT OF CONVERSION

Submitted To: Prof. AYAZ AHMAD

Submitted By: MOHD. TABISH

GU16R0574

CONTEXT
TABLE OF CASES
 INTRODUCTION

A conversion is an act of wilful interference, without lawful justification, with any chattel in a
manner inconsistent with the right of another, whereby that other is deprived of the use
any possession of it. The expression, ‘wilful interference in this definitions implies the
elements of intension which refers to the intentional communication of the act constituting
conversion. if a person deals with the chattel in a manner which is necessarily inconsistent
with the right of plaintiff, the dealing will be intentional and will amount to conversion even
if he honestly believed that he was entitled to do so and he did not know of the right held by
the plaintiff. Of example an auctioneer is liable for conversion even though he honestly
believed that they goods belonged to the seller and not to the plaintiff. Conversion may be
committed in many different ways but he common link in all act constituting conversion is
that they consist in dealing with goods which goods imply either unjustifiable denial of rights
of another in than or assertion of rights inconsistent with the rights of another. Putting is
more briefly, a person who treats goods as if they were his when they are not, is liable to be
sued in conversion”1
1
Ratanlal & dhirajlal, The law of torts,454(lexis Nexis Haryana, india 26 th edn 2012