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''Rei vindicatio'' is a legal action by which the plaintiff demands that the defendant return a thing that belongs to the plaintiff. It may only be used when plaintiff owns the thing, and the defendant is somehow impeding the plaintiff's possession of the thing. The term originated in ancient Rome. The plaintiff could also institute an ''actio furti'' (a personal action) in order to punish the defendant. If the thing could not be recovered, the plaintiff could claim damages from the defendant with the aid of the ''condictio furtiva'' (a personal action). With the aid of the ''actio legis Aquiliae'' (a personal action), the plaintiff could claim damages from the defendant. ''Rei vindicatio'' was derived from the ius civile, therefore was only available to Roman citizens. ==Specification of the thing== The function of ''rei vindicatio'' remains the same in most modern legal systems as it was in ancient Rome. However, Roman law was much more particular about the specification of the "thing". A plaintiff could not have won a case without specifying the thing in question. At a theoretical level, Roman jurists identified three kinds of "thing": * ''Corpus unitum'' * ''Corpus coniunctum'' * ''Corpus ex distantibus'' was not a single thing, but a bundle of independent things, such as a herd of cattle. Cattle were so important in Roman society that Roman jurists developed the regulation on cattle on a full scale. ''Corpus ex distantibus'' was the most disputed of the three. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「rei vindicatio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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