Manus Injectio
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Institutes of Roman Law
Early Roman procedure of personal execution against the body of a defaulting debtor.
After the abolition of the legis actiones and the introduction of execution against the estate, execution against the body of the debtor still remained as one of the remedies of the civil code.
In the early law the only general form of execution was personal (manus injectio), and when the praetor established a form of real execution it operated, whether at the instance of one, or of several creditors, as a transfer of the debtor’s entire property to the vendee.
(1) As manus injectio might be founded on a previous judgment or an admission of debt (res judicata or aes confessum), and missio in possessionem might be granted against judicatus who makes default, so in English law non-payment of an admitted or a judgment debt after service of a debtor’s summons is an act of bankruptcy, and instead of suing out a writ of execution the creditor may petition for …
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The Roman mode of execution against the person of a judgment debtor.
The Manus Injectio is expressly stated to have been originally the Roman mode of execution against the person of a judgment debtor.