CONDICTION

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CONDICTION, Lat. condictio. This term is used in the civil law in the same 
  sense as action. Condictio certi, is an action for the recovery of a certain 
  thing, as our action of replevin, condictio incerti, is an action given for 
  the recovery of an uncertain thing. Dig. 12, 1.