Actio Publiciana
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In the civil law. An action which lay for one who had lost a thing of which he had bene fide obtained possession, befure he had gained a property in it, in order to have it restored, under color that he had obtained a property in it by prescription.
Inst. 4, 6,4; Heinecc.
Elem. lib.
4, tit. 6, § 1131; Halifax, Anal. b. 3, ¢c. 1, n.9.
It was an honorary action, and derived its name from ihe prictor Publicius, by whose edict it was first given.
Inst. 4, 6, 4.
Aetio quelibet it sua via
Every action proceeds in its own way.
Jenk. Cent. 77.