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revendicate -cat·ed -cat·ing [back-formation from revendication, from French, from Middle French, probably from revendiguer to revendicate, from re- back + vendiguer to lay claim to something, from Latin vindicare] in the civil law of Louisiana : to bring an action to enforce rights in (specific property) esp. for the recognition of ownership and the recovery of possession from one wrongfully in possession re·ven·di·ca·tion [-ven-də-kā-shən] n re·ven·di·ca·to·ry [-ven-də-kə-tōr-ē] adj ...
Revendication
Revendication. Upon the sale of goods on credit, by the law of some commercial countries, a right is reserved to the vendor to retake them, or he has a lien upon them for the price, if unpaid: and in other countries he possesses a right of stoppage in transitu (q.v.) only in cases of insolvency of the vendee. The Roman law did not generally consider the transfer of property to be complete by sale and delivery alone without payment or security given for the price, unless the vendor agreed to give a general credit to the purchaser; but it allowed the vendor to reclaim the goods out of the possession of the purchaser, as being still his own property. Quod vendidi (say the Pandects), nobis aliter fit accipienlis, quam si aut pretium nobis solutum sit, aut satis to non datum, vel etiam fidem habuerimus emptori sine ulla satisfactione. The present code of France gives a privilege or right of revendication against the purchaser for the price of goods sold, so long as they remain in possession...
Revendication
The act of revendicating...
Revendicate
To reclaim to demand the restoration of...
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