Actio Tributoria
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 civil law. An action for distribution (Lat. tribuere, to distribute); an action which lay for the creditor of a son or slave, who had traded upon his peculium,, with the knowledge of his father or master, to obtain from the latter a distributive or proportionate share of the goods traded in (peculiares merces), or their proceeds. Inst. 4. 7. 3; Heinec. Elem. Jur. Civ. lib. 4, tit. 7, § 1217; Halifax, Anal, bk. 3, c. 2, note 6.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
In the civil law. An action for distribution; (Lat. tribuere, to distribute;) an action which lay for the creditor of a son or slave, who had traded upon his peculium, with the knowledge of his father or master, to obtain from the latter a distributive or proportionate share of the goods traded in, (peculiares merces,) or their proceeds. Inst. 4. 7. 3. Heinecc. Elem. lib. 4, tit. 7, § 1217. Halifax Anal. b. 3, c. 2, n. 6.