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Actio Ex Empto

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In the civil law. An action of purchase, or upon purchase; an action which a buyer is entitled to maintain against a seller, in order to cause him to deliver possession of the thing sold, with its titles and fruits, and everything dependent upon it. Poth. Cont. pt.

2, c. 1, art. 5; Inst. 4. 6. 28.

Otherwise called actio empti,