Publiciana
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In the civil law. The name of an action introduced by the praetor Publicius, the object of which was to recover a thing which had bcen lost. Its effects were simllar to those of our action of trover.
Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 298. See Inst. 4, 6, 4 ; Dig. 6, 2, 1, 16.