actio condictio indebiti

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actio condictio indebiti - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  ACTIO CONDICTIO INDEBITI. The name of an action in the civil law, by which
  the plaintiff recovers the amount of a sum of money or other thing be paid
  by mistake. Poth. Promutuum, n. 140. See Assumpsit.