REPETUNDAE, OR PECUNIAE REPETUNDAE

In Roman law. The terms used to designate such sums of money as the socii of the Roman state, or individuals, claimed to recover from magis tratus, judiees, or pub-lid curatorcs, which they had improperly taken or received in the provincial, or in the urbs Roma, either in the discharge of their jurisdictio, or in their capacity of judiees, or in respect of any other public function. Sometimes the word “repetundai” was used to express the illegal act for which compensation was sought Wharton.