Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Roman law, an action of a personal nature, founded upon an obligation to perform a certain and defined service or to give or do a certain thing.

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  • noun law A claim for restitution of a payment

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Examples

  • Such verbal contracts ground two different action, namely condiction, when the stipulation is certain, and the action on stipulation, when it is uncertain; and the name is derived from stipulum, a word in use among the ancients to mean

    The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891

  • If the money which he attempted to lend has been spent in good faith by the wouldbe borrower, it can be sued for by the personal action called condiction; if it has been fraudulently spent, the pupil can sue by personal action for its production.

    The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891

  • I decided if I ever find a man desperate enough to want to marry me, instead of an expensive ring, I was an inexpensive ring and all 60 editions of AH&TTI in readable condiction.

    Romance in the Stacks « Awful Library Books 2010

  • June 9th, 2009 at 2: 29 am graph cannot reverse at tiping point. it needs to be flat at bottom. we stretch a lot-probably many years in that condiction - good earning with no free time

    What are you doing today? 2008

  • In addition, a very tiny percentage of people who recover from this condiction are incapacitated.

    Think Progress » Fox News Speculates How Officials Could ‘Declare’ Sen. Johnson ‘Incapacitated’ 2006

  • _Dear sir_: I notice in the Chicago defender that you are working to better the condiction of the colored people of the south.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 Various

  • Under our constitution too a statutory condiction lies for the recovery of fourfold damages from officers of the court, who exact money from defendants in excess of its provisions.

    The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891

  • Code, under which a statutory condiction clearly lies for the damages in question.

    The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891

  • Still, the person to whom money is thus paid is laid under an obligation exactly as if he had taken a loan for consumption, and therefore he is liable to a condiction.

    The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891

  • So too, wherever a man is suable by either of the actions called exercitoria and institoria, he may, in lieu thereof, be sued directly by a condiction, because in effect the contract in such cases is made at his bidding.

    The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891

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