In the civil law. The name of an actlon Introduced by the prtetor Publicius, the object of which was to recover a thing which had been lost. Its effects were similar to those of onr action of trover. Mackeld. Rom. Law, $ 298. See lnst. 4, 6, 4; Dig. 6, 2, 1, 16
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
