Carpou dike
καρποῦ δίκη
Carpou dike (καρποῦ δίκη), a civil action under the jurisdiction of the thesmothetae, might be instituted against a farmer for default in payment of rent (Meier, Att. Proc. p. 531). It was also adopted to enforce a judicial award when the unsuccessful litigant refused to surrender the land to his opponent (Hudtwalcker, p. 144; Meier, Att. Proc. p. 750), and might be used to determine the right to land (Harpocrat. s.v. and οὐσίας δίκη), as the judgment would determine whether the plaintiff could claim rent of the defendant.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.