Condictio

Lat. [from condicere, to summon; denuntiare,] In the civil law. A personal action; an action against the person, in which the plaintiff complains that something ought to be given to him; {dicimus condictionem actumem in personam esse, qud actor intendit dari sibi oportere,) Inst,.4.

6. 16.

Sometimes called condictitia actio; an action of condiction.

Inst. 3. 15. 1.

This sense of the word is admitted in the Institutes to be an abuse (abusive dicimus condictionem) of its original meaning, which was a denunciation or summoning, the word being derived from condicere, which, in the old language, signified to denounce, or summon a party to appear on a certain day to receive judgment.

Inst. 4, 6, 15.

Theoph, in loco.

Heinecc.

Elem, Jur, Civ. lib.

4, tit. 6, § 1145.

Hallifax Anal, b.

3, ch. 1, nu. 5.