In the civil law. The name of an action introduced by the pnetor Publiclus, the object of which was to recover a thing which had been lost Its effects were similar to those of our action of trover. Mackeld. Rom. Law, J 298. See Inst. 4, 6, 4; Dig. 6, 2, 1, 16.
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