Actio directa

A direct action ; an action founded on strict law, and conducted according to fixed forms; an action founded on certnin legal obligations which from their origin were accurately defined and recognized as actionable.

Defined under Actio in Black's Law Dictionary.

In the civil law. A direct action; an action founded on strict law, and conducted according to fixed forms; an action founded on certain legal obligations which from their origin were accurately detined and recognized as actionable.

In the civil law. A direct action, in the stricter sense of the word directus; (q.v.) an action founded on strict law, and conducted accordmg to fixed forms; called also vulgaris* 1 MackeU. Civ. Law, 189, § 194. Id. 268, note. An action on a contract made through an agent, brought between the immediate parties to the contract, that is, the agent and the other contractor. Story <m Agency, § 163. An action for an injury directly committed by a person with his own hand or body, (si quis corpore suo damnum dederit;) or where the act done is immediately, and not consequentially injurious.* Inst. 4. 3. 16. All these are distinguished from the actio utilis. (q. V.) An action brought to enforce an obligation, which is essential to a contract, and which therefore exists immediately after entering upon the same; as distinguished from ac Ho contrarui, or one brought for the payment of a counter claim. 1 Afackeld. Civ. Law, 191} § 195.