Revendication

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Bouvier (1839)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

(Civil Law) An unpaid vendee’s right to recover goods remaining intact in the hands of his insolvent vendee. See 12 Ohio St. 515.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

In Civil Law. An action by which a man demands a thing of which he claims to be owner. It applies to immovables as well as movables, to corporeal or incorporeal things. Merlin, Report. By the civil law, he who has sold goods for cash or on credit may demand them back from the purchaser if the purchase-money is not paid according to contract. The action of revindication is used for this purpose. See an attempt to introduce the principle of revendication into our law; 2 Hall, Law.Tour n. 181. Revendication, in another sense, corresponds very nearly to the stoppage in transitu of the common law. It is used in that sense in the Code de Commerce, art. 577. Revendication, says that article, can take place only when the goods sold are on the way to their place of destination, whether by land or water, and before they have been received into the warehouse of the insolvent ( lailli ) or that of his factor or agent authorized to sell them on account of the insolvent. See Dig. 14. 4. 15; 18. 1. 19. 53; 19. 1. 11.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In the civil law. The right of a vendor to reclaim goods sold out of the possession of the purchaser, where the price was not paid. Story, Confl. Laws, § 401. See Benedict v. Schaettle, 12 Ohio St. 520; Ellis v. Davis, 109 U. S. 485, 3 Sup. Ct 327, 27 L. Ed. 1006.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

John Bouvier · 1839

French law, is an action by which a man demands a thing of which he claims to be the owner. It applies to ime movables as well as movables; to corporeal or incorporeal things. Merlin, Répert. h.t. By the civil law, he who has sold goods for cash or on credit may demand them back from the purchaser, if the purchase money is not paid according to contract. The action of revendication is used for this purpose. Sce an attempt to introduce the principle of revendication into our law, in 2 Hall’s Law Journal, 181.