ACTION AD EXHIBENDUM, civil law. This was an action instituted for the
purpose of compelling the defendant to exhibit a thing or title, in his
power. It was preparatory to another action, which was always a real action
in the sense of the Roman law, that is, for the recovery of a thing, whether
it was movable or immovable. Merl. Quest. de Dr. tome i. 84. This is not
unlike a bill of discovery. (q.v.)