Actio Tributoria
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 for distribution (Lat. tribuere, to distribute); an action which lay for the creditor of a son or slave, who had traded upon his peculium,, with the knowledge of his father or master, to obtain from the latter a distributive or proportionate share of the goods traded in (peculiares merces), or their proceeds.
Inst. 4. 7. 3; Heinec.
Elem. Jur. Civ. lib.
4, tit. 7, § 1217; Halifax, Anal, bk. 3, c. 2, note 6.