Rei vindicatio

The Vindikationslage refers to a specific situation of owner - owner - relationship in civil law, in which an owner against a not lawfully entitled to possession owner has a claim for (compare § 985, § 986 BGB).

Make up for the owner who believes in his possession law and may rightly believe certain privileges to this situation. So he is not liable for damage to or destruction of the thing to be issued and has claims for the compensation of its uses, which were necessary for the preservation of the thing. The owner, however, bad faith is subject to increased liability.

In patent law, which refers to the vindication Apply a patent application by an ineligible applicant has withdrawn from an illegally to log legitimate inventor or by an applicant, the content of a foreign patent application ( § 8 Patent Act). The desire of the transmission can be enforced by a Vindication ( before a district court ).

• Property Law ( Germany )