action ad exhibendum

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action ad exhibendum - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  ACTION AD EXHIBENDUM, civil law. This was an action instituted for the
  purpose of compelling the defendant to exhibit a thing or title, in his
  power.  It was preparatory to another action, which was always a real action
  in the sense of the Roman law, that is, for the recovery of a thing, whether
  it was movable or immovable. Merl. Quest. de Dr. tome i. 84. This is not
  unlike a bill of discovery. (q.v.)