libellary

Towards the end of the formulary period, during the libellary period and especially at the time of the Justinian compilation the word condictio conveyed a purely juridical notion and was equivalent to reptitio, repetere.

Any type of investiture would serve this purpose, and in fact we read in the authorities of churches which were granted to clerks in the form of a libellary contract, métayage or Teilpacht, a precaria, and even for the duration of a number of lives.