{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/torts-interference-with-goods-act-1977/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/torts-interference-with-goods-act-1977/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1977/32",
  "legislation_title": "Torts (Interference with Goods) Act 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/torts-interference-with-goods-act-1977",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Abolition of detinue.",
  "text": "(1) Detinue is abolished.\n(2) An action lies in conversion for loss or destruction of goods which a bailee has allowed to happen in breach of his duty to his bailor (that is to say it lies in a case which is not otherwise conversion, but would have been detinue before detinue was abolished).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1977/32/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:24:20.843878+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}