Noxal actions
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noxal actions · actiones noxales · noxae deditio · noxal liability
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Actions in which the defendant may elect to pay damages or surrender the person who caused the harm.
) In noxal actions, § 75, which are analogous in procedure to actiones arbitrariae, there was probably no clause ‘nisi noxae dedat,’ but the judgment was of the form Publium Maevium Lucio Titio decem aureis condemno aut noxam dedere, Inst.
Omnes autem noxales actiones caput secuntur.
All noxal actions are said to follow the person of the delinquent.
The Law of Torts
Roman-law doctrine by which an owner was made liable through the thing that had caused harm.
That order of ideas was preserved in the noxal actions of Roman law, and in our own criminal law by the forfeiture of the offending object which had moved, as it was said, to a man’s death, under the name of deodand.