Aut Clam

In the civil law. An action which lay where one forcibly or clandestinely, (vi aut clam,) erected or demolished a boilding on his own or another's ground, and thereby unlawfully injured another; its object being to get everything restored to its former condition, and to obtam damages.* Digi. 43.

24. 1.

Bracton gives this action a place in his system of remedies, defining it as one which lay a^inst him who had erected or prostrated a building on another's land, and concealed himself in order to avoid being prevented from doing it, {et se occuliavit, ne sibi prokiberetur;) and observes that the offender might by this action be compelled to restore everything to its former state, at his own expense. Bract, fol.

103 b. 104 a.

See Interdictum.

See Interdictum.