Latin

Noun

vindicia f ‎(genitive vindiciae); first declension

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)

Declension

First declension.

References

• vindĭcĭa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vindĭcĭae in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “vindĭcĭæ”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, pages 1,678–9.