Action

The formal legal demand of a right. Action droitural: an action upon the right, to determine the title, as opposed to a possessory action. Action on the case: a remedy given by the statute of Westm. II. in cases similar to those covered by the original writs, and commonly employed where the injury is not immediate; so called because the whole case is set out in the writ. Ancestral action: an action to recover land, relying on the seisin or possession Of an ancestor. Civil action: an action brought to enforce a private light. Feigned action: an action brought to settle a point of law, there being no actual controversy. Local action: an action which must be brought in a certain place. Mixed action: an action in which both damages and the recovery of real property are sought. Penal action: an action for a penalty. Personal action: an action for damages or for personal property. Petitory action: a droitural action. Possessory action: an action for possession merely., Qui tarn action: a popular action; an action in behalf of the sovereign and the informer. Real action: an action for realty. Transitory action: an action which may be brought in any county. In Scots law. Action of abstracted multures: an action for tolls due by tenure to a particular mill for grinding grain, abstracted or withheld by tenants. Rescissory action: an action brought to avoid a deed or other instrument