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Actio Criminalis

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

In the common law. A criminal action.

Bract. foL 102 b.

See Actio civ Uis. ACTIO DE DOLO MALO In the civil law. An action of fraud; an action which lay for a defrauded person against the defrauder and his heirs, who had been enriched by the fraud, to obtain the restitijtion of the thing of which h^ had been fraudulently deprived, with all its accessions, {cum omni causa;) or, where this was not practicable, for compensation m damages.

1 Mackeld. Civ. Law, 221, § 217. ffeinece.

Elem, Jur. Civ. lib.

4, tit. 6, g 1152. Bract, fol J03 b.