Evincere

Lat. In the civil law. To overcome or prevail at law, (vincere judicio.) Calvin's Lex. Jur. To take a thing from one by right of ownership, through a judicial sentence, (per sententiam judicis.) Brissonius. To claim a thing by suit as one's own by right of ownership, from him who had no right to it, but has given or sold it to another, and to wrest it from the purchaser by a judicial sentence, condemning him to give it up. Prateius Lex.