PUBLICIANA

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

  PUBLICIANA, civil law. The name of an action introduced by the proctor 
  Publicius, the object of which was to recover a thing which had been lost. 
  Inst. 4, 6, 4; Dig. 6, 2 1, 16 et 17. Its effects were similar to those of 
  our action of trover.