ory of the free-will controversy see the articles, WILL,
PREDESTINATION (for the theological problems), ETHICS.

DETINUE (O. Fr. _detenue_, from _detenir_, to hold back), in law, an
action whereby one who has an absolute or a special property in goods
seeks to recover from another who is in actual possession and refuses to
redeliver them. If the plaintiff succeeds in an action of detinue, the
judgment is that he recover the chattel or, if it cannot be had, its
value, which is assessed by the judge and jury, and also certain damages
for detaining the same. An order for the restitution of the specific
goods may be enforced by a special writ of execution, called a writ of
delivery. (See CONTRACT; TROVER.)

DETMOLD, a town of Germany, capital of the principality of
Lippe-Detmold, beautifully situated on the east slope of the Teutoburger
Wald, 25 m. S. of Minden, on the Herford-Altenbeken line of the Prussian
state railways. Pop. (1905) 13,164. The residential chateau of the
princes of Lippe-Detmold (1550), in the Renaissance style, is an
imposing building, lying with its pretty gardens nearly in the centre of
the town; whilst at the entrance to the large park on the south is the
New Palace (1708-1718), enlarged in 1850, used as the dower-house.
Detmold possesses a natural history museum, theatre, high school,
library, the house in which the poet Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810-1876)
was born, and that in which the dramatist Christian Dietrich Grabbe
(1801-1836), also a native, died. The leading industries are
linen-weaving, tanning, brewing, horse-dealing and the quarrying of
marble and gypsum. About 3 m. to the south-west of the town is the
Grotenburg, with Ernst von Bandel's colossal statue of Hermann or
Arminius, the leader of the Cherusci. Detmold (Thiatmelli) was in 783
the scene of a conflict between the Saxons and the troops of
Charlemagne.

DETROIT, the largest city of Michigan, U.S.A., and the county-seat of
Wayne county, on the Detroit river opposite Windsor, Canada, about 4 m.
W. from the outlet of Lake St Clair and 18 m. above Lake Erie. Pop.
(1880) 116,340; (1890) 205,876; (1900) 285,704, of whom 96,503 were
foreign-born and 4111 were negroes; (1910 census) 465,766. Of the
foreign-born in 1900, 32,027 were Germans and 10,703 were German Poles,
25,403 were English Canadians and 3541 French Canadians, 6347 were
English and 6412 were Irish. Detroit is served by the Michigan Central,
the Lake Shore & Michigan