Fides Facta
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Among the Franks and Lombards undertakings were guaranteed by “making one’s faith” — fides- facta. This was symbolized by such formal acts as the giving of a rod; in suretyship giving the “festuca” or “vadium.”
2 Holdsw. Hist E. L. 73.
FIDUCIA (Lat). In Civil Law. A contract by which we sell a thing to some one — that is, transmit to him the property of the thing, with the solemn forms of emancipation— on condition that he will sell it back to us. This species of contract took place in the emancipation of children, in testaments, and in pledges. Pothier, Pand.