Actio Utilis
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
An action for the benefit of those who had the beneficial use of property, but not the legal title; an equitable action.
1 Spence, Eq. Jur. 214.
It was subsequently extended to include many other instances where a party was equitably entitled to relief, although he did not come within the strict letter of the law and the formulae appropriate thereto.