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Actio vi bonorum raptorum

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

An action for goods taken by force; a species of mixed action, which lay for a party whose goods or movables (bona) had been taken from him by force, (vt,) to recover the things so taken, together with a penalty of triple the value.

Inst. 4, 2; Id. 4, 6. 19.

Bracton describas it as lying de rebus mobilibus vi ablatis sive robbatis, (for movable things taken away by force, or robbed.) Bract, fol.

103b.