Revendication

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Revendication \Re*ven`di*ca"tion\, n. [F. revendication.]
     The act of revendicating. [R.] --Vattel (Trans.)
     [1913 Webster]

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



  REVENDICATION, civil and French law. An action by which a man demands a 
  thing of which he claims to be owner. It applies to immovables as well as 
  movables; to corporeal or encorporeal things. Merlin, Repert. h.t. 
       2. By the civil law, he who has sold goods for cash or on credit may 
  demand them back from the purchaser, if the purchase-money is not paid 
  according to contract. The action of revendication is used for this purpose. 
  See an attempt to introduce the principle of revendication into our law, in 
  2 Hall's Law Journal, 181. 
       3. Revendication, in another sense, corresponds, very nearly, to the 
  stoppage in transitu (q.v.) of the common law. It is used in that sense in 
  the Code de Commerce, art. 577. Revendication, says that article, can take 
  place only when the goods sold are on the way to their place of destination, 
  whether by land or water, and before they have been received into the 
  warehouse of the insolvent, (failli,) or that of his factor or agent, 
  authorized to sell them on account of the insolvent. See Dig. 14, 4, 15;Dig. 
  18, 1, 19, 53; Dig. 19, f, 11.