Condictio ex Lege
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
An action arising where the law gave a remedy, but provided no appropriate form of action. Calv. Lex. Condictio Indebitati. An action which lies to recover that which the plaintiff has paid to the defendant, by mistake, and which he was not bound to pay, either in fact or in law. This action does not lie if the money was due ex aequitate, or by a natural obligation, or if he who made the payment knew that nothing was due; for qui consulto dat, quod nan debet, praesumitur donare. Bell, Diet.; Calv. Lex.; 1 Kames, Eq. 307. Condictio Rei Furtivae. An action against the thief or his heir to recover the thing stolen. Condictio Sine Causa. An action by which anything which has been parted with without consideration may be recovered.^ It also lay in case of failure of consideration, under certain circumstances. Calv. Lex. CONDITIO (Lat.) A condition. Bracton, fols. 19, 47.
Defined under Condescendence in The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
An action arising where the law gave a remedy but provided no appropriate form of action. Calvinus, Lex.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
An action arising where the law gave a remedy, but provided no appropriate form of action. Cni-vin.
Defined under Condictio in Black's Law Dictionary.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
Lat.
In the civil law. A personal action, arising from a particular law. This had place when an obligation had been introduced by a new law, and no particular action had been expressed by which that obligation might be enforced. Heinecc. Elem. Jur. Civ. lib. 4, tit. 6, § 1155. Hallifax Anal. b. 3, ch. 1, num. 16. CONDICTIO INDEBITI. Lat.
In the civil law. An action to recover back money paid by mistake, as not being due (indebitum) to the party who received it. Inst. 3. 15. 1. It approaches very nearly to our action for money had and received. Cooper's Notes, in loc. 594. 1 Kames' Equity, 307. Heinecc. El. Jur. Civ. lib. 3, tit. 28, § 991. CONDICTIO REI FURTIVAE. Lat.
In the civil law. An action which lay to recover a thing stolen, against the thief himself, or his heir. Inst. 4. 1. 19. Heinecc. El. Jur. Civ. lib. 4, tit. 1, § 1062. Bract. fol. 103 b.