Actio Criminalis
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In the common law. A criminal action. Bracton, fol. 102b.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
In the common law. A criminal action. Bract. foL 102 b. See Actio civ Uis. ACTIO DE DOLO MALO In the civil law. An action of fraud; an action which lay for a defrauded person against the defrauder and his heirs, who had been enriched by the fraud, to obtain the restitijtion of the thing of which h^ had been fraudulently deprived, with all its accessions, {cum omni causa;) or, where this was not practicable, for compensation m damages. 1 Mackeld. Civ. Law, 221, § 217. ffeinece. Elem, Jur. Civ. lib. 4, tit. 6, g 1152. Bract, fol J03 b.