Action ad exhibendum

ACTION AD EXHIBENDUM, civil law. This was an action instituted for thepurpose of compelling the defendant to exhibit a thing or title, in hispower. It was preparatory to another action, which was always a real actionin the sense of the Roman law, that is, for the recovery of a thing, whetherit was movable or immovable. Merl. Quest. de Dr. tome i. 84. This is notunlike a bill of discovery. (q.v.)