Actio Specialis
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In the civil law. A special action; an action brought to enforce the delivery of one of several single things.
1 Mackeld.
Civ. Law, p.
193, § 196; Dig. 6. 1. 1.
ACTIO STRICTI JURIS (Lat. an action ol strict right). An action in which the judge followed the formula that was sent to himclosely, administered such relief only as that warranted, and admitted such claims as were distinctly set forth by the pleadings of the parties.
1 Spence, Eq. Jur. 218,