de aestimato
de aestimato (dee es-ti-may-toh). [Latin “for the estimation of something in money”] Roman law. An action available to an owner of goods against a person who received the goods but failed, after a certain period, to either pay the owner an agreed price after finding a purchaser or return the goods to the owner. • The transaction, or aestimatum, was an innominate contract often used by traveling merchants or second-hand dealers who, after purchasing items, could then resell them at higher prices or return them to the owner. — Also termed actio aestimatoria.
