Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2014/June 22

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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
vindicia f, noun
  1. (chiefly in the plural) a laying claim to (a thing, before the praetor, by both contending parties)
  2. a legal claim (made in respect to a thing, whether as one’s own property, or for its restoration to a free condition)
  3. provisional possession (for the duration of the vindicātiō, of the property so disputed)
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