CONSCIENTIA REI ALIENI. In
Categories: Property
Definition (1910 Edition)
Origin: Scotch
Scotch law. Knowledge of another’s property; knowledge that a thing is not one’s own, but belongs to another. He who has this knowledge, and retains possession, is chargeable with ‘“‘violent profits.”
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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