Conversion can occur when someone, acting without your consent, does any of the following with your property: Takes and fails to return your property. Sells your property. Substantially changes your property, like cutting down trees to use the wood in construction.

Conversion in California is a civil cause of action that applies when a person unlawfully and without permission, took or interfered with someone else’s possession of their property. The victim can bring a claim for recovery of the property, or compensation for the value of the lost property.

In California, a plaintiff may seek both civil relief and criminal prosecution of an individual who has converted their property. However, since it is up to the local prosecutor to decide whether or not to press charges and file a criminal lawsuit, the plaintiff can only sue for damages using the civil court system.

A conversion is usually proved in one of three ways:

1. by tortuous taking;
2. by any use or appropriation of the use of the person in possession, indicating a claim of right in opposition to rights of the owner; or.
3. refusal to give up possession to the owner on demand.

Wrongful conversion is to protect you against loss following the purchase of a vehicle from someone who is not the true owner. Personal Accident and Assault. Personal Accident and Assault covers bodily injury to you or your employees as a result of an accident caused by theft or attempted theft.

Conversion is a tort that exposes you to liability for damages in a civil lawsuit. It applies when someone intentionally interferes with personal property belonging to another person.

A conversion is any act of wilful interference, without any lawful justification, in a manner which is inconsistent with the right of another, whereby that other is deprived of the use and possession of the chattel.

A conversion is the exchange of a convertible type of asset into another type of asset—usually at a predetermined price—on or before a predetermined date. The conversion feature is a financial derivative instrument that is valued separately from the underlying security.

The usual type of theft involves the taking of another’s property. Theft by conversion occurs through the lawful taking of property and then converting it into income generated by some form of sale or trade. The crime of theft may be prosecuted in either or both criminal and civil court.

Conversion is an intentional tort and involves one party taking away the other party’s property by using it, or by altering the property in a way that is inconsistent with the rights of the owner. …

The standard remedy for conversion is a judgment for damages in an amount equal to the fair market value of the property. Punitive damages are also possible, because conversion is an intentional tort. The standard remedy in a detinue action is an order that the property be returned.

The tort of conversion applies to many types of personal property, including money[xx]. Money can be the subject of conversion if the specific money in question can be identified[xxi]. The general rule is that money is an intangible and therefore not subject to a claim for conversion[xxii].

Transferred intent may occur through a transfer of intent from person to person, or from tort to tort. Transferred intent is applicable to assault, battery, trespass to land, trespass to chattels, and false imprisonment, but transferred intent is not applicable to IIED or conversion.

The doctrine of transferred malice applies where the mens rea of one offence can be transferred to another. For example, suppose A shoots at B intending to kill B, but misses and hits and kills C. Transferred malice can operate so that the mens rea of A (intention to kill B) can be transferred to the killing of C.

Transferred intent is used when a defendant intends to harm one victim, but then unintentionally harms a second victim instead. The transferred intent doctrine is only used for completed crimes, and is not used for attempted crimes.

This crime, known as criminal conversion, is taken very seriously. It can be labeled as a misdemeanor or felony that carries fines and years in prison. If you have been charged with criminal conversion, you may feel as if you are being unfairly accused.

The general rule is that there is no conversion until some act is done which is a denial or violation of the plaintiff’s dominion over or rights in the property. To constitute a conversion of a chattel, there must be an unauthorized assumption of the right to possession or ownership.

Conversion of money adds a bit of a twist to the analysis because money, by its nature, is fungible. Accordingly, the law of conversion as applicable to money requires a legal obligation to return specific money entrusted to another.

Generally, punitive damages may be allowed when the conversion involves elements of fraud, ill will, malice, recklessness, wantonness, oppression, insult, willful, conscious disregard of the plaintiff’s rights, or other aggravating circumstances[xii].

Conversion Order means the Order of the District delivered at least two Business Days prior to each Conversion Date pursuant to Section 3.01, which shall specify the application of proceeds of the remarketing of the Certificates on the Conversion Date, the revised maturity schedule for the Certificates, if any, which …

A specific customer action that you’ve defined as valuable to your business, such as an online purchase or phone call. Conversion actions are available for several conversion sources, including website actions, calls, app downloads, and in-app actions (such as in-app purchases). …

There are two types of conversion: implicit and explicit. The term for implicit type conversion is coercion. Explicit type conversion in some specific way is known as casting.

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