Actio confessoria
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
An affirmative petitory action for the recognition and enforcement of a servitude. So called because based on the plaintiff's affirmative nilegation. of a right in defendant's land. Distinguished from an actio negatoria, which was brought to repel a claim of the defendant to a servitude in the plaintiff's land.
Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 324.