In Roman law. A fictitious suit, in which the person who was to acquire the thiug claimed (vindicabat) the thiug as his own, the person who was to transfer it acknowledged the justice of the claim, aud the magistrate prouounced it to be the property (addicebat) of the claimant Sandars’ Just. Inst. (5th Ed.) 89, 122i
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
