Repetundae
Defined in 1 dictionary — Cyclopedic (1922)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
or PECUNIAE REPEtundae.
In Roman law. The terms used to designate such sums of money as the sodi of the Roman state, or individuals, claimed to recover from magistratus, judices, or publid curatores, which they had improperly taken or received in the provmciae, or in the urbs Roma, either in the discharge of their jurisdictio, or in their capacity of judices, or in respect of any other public function. Sometimes the word "repetundae" was used to express the illegal act for which compensation was sought. Wharton. REPETUNDARUIM CRIMEN (Lat.)
In the Roman law. The crime of bribery or extortion in a magistrate, or person in any public office. Calv. Lex.; Halifax, Anal, bk. 3, c. 12, No. 73; Dig. 48. 11; Code, 9. 27.