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vindicatio

vindicatio · f

a laying claim

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Where it lives

De Inventione 4 · 1.21/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

vindĭcātĭo — Lewis & Short

vindĭcātĭo, ōnis, f.id..

I In jurid. lang., a laying claim to a thing, a civil action or lawsuit for a thing, Gai Inst. 2, 24; 4, 16 sq.; Dig. 44, 7, 24; cf.: De rei vindicatione, Dig. 6, tit. 6: intestatorum civium concessam vindicationem bonorum adfirmare, Traj. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 88.—

II A taking into protection, a protection, defence, vindication: an avenging, punishment of an offence: vindicatio est, per quam vim et contumeliam defendendo aut ulciscendo propulsamus a nobis et a nostris, qui nobis esse cari debent: et per quam peccata punimus, Cic. Inv. 2, 22, 66; 2, 53, 161.

In the wild

vindicationem Cicero, De Inventione 2.161
vindicatio Cicero, De Inventione 2.161
vindicationem Cicero, De Inventione 2.66
vindicationem Cicero, De Inventione 2.65
vindicationem Pliny the Younger, Letters 10.84.1

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