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Actio puhliciana

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Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

An action which lay for one who had lost a thing of which he had bona fide obtained possession. before he had gnined a property in it, in older to have it restored, under color that he had obtained a property in it by prescription. Inst 4, 6k 4; Heinecc. Elem. lib. 4, tit. 6, § 1131; Hallifax, Anal. b. 3, c. 1, n. 9. It was an honorary action, and derived its name from the prætor Publicius, by whose edict it was first given. Inst. 4, 6, 4.

Defined under Actio in Black's Law Dictionary.