 It is referred to by Cicero on three occasions.In 72/71 BC, setting out some standard defences to a charge of obtaining property by 'force' or 'violence' ("uis") in his speech on behalf of his client Marcus Tullius, he referred to the requirement that the dispossessed party's claim to possession not be based upon entry by force, stealth or licence ('cum ille possideret, quod possideret nec ui nec clam nec precario' - 'as long as the other party was in lawful possession and did not gain possession by force, stealth or licence').In 69, in his defence of Aulus Caecina, Cicero similarly referred to the defence available to the man using force or violence ("uis") to recover his property from an adverse possessor that the latter had himself entered by force, by stealth or on the recoveror's licence ('uincit tamen sponsionem si planum facit ab se illum aut ui aut clam aut precario possedisse' - 'yet he wins his argument if he can clearly show that the other obtained it from him by force, by stealth or by his licence').