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An action employed in behalf of a seller, to compel a buyer to pay the price, or perform any special obligations embodied in a contract of sale. Hunter, Rom. Law, 332. … [Read more...] about ACTIO VENDITI

In Scotch law. All actions which are not rescissory. Ersk. Inst. 4, 1, 18. … [Read more...] about ACTIONS OBDINABY

Real; actual. 2. Actual notice. One which has been expressly given by which knowledge of a fact hos been brought home to a party directly ; it is opposed to constructive notice. 3. Actual admissions. Those which are expressly made; they are plenary or partial.. 4. An actual escape takes place when a prisoner in fact gets out of prison, and unlawful regains his liberty. Law … [Read more...] about ACTUAL

Legal maxim and Latin for the act of the law does no one injury / wrong. A general presumption that the bringing of a lawsuit by one party against another party does not harm that second party (other than a frivolous action.) … [Read more...] about ACTUS NEMINI FACIT INJURIAM

An action for goods taken by force; a species of mixed action, which lay for a party whose goods or movables (bona) had been taken from him by force, (vt,) to recover the things so taken, together with a penalty of triple the value. Inst 4, 2; Id. 4, 6. 19. Bracton describes it as lying de rebus mobilibus vi ablatis sive robbatis, (for movable things taken away by force, or … [Read more...] about ACTIO VI BONORUM RAPTORUM