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Actio Legis Aquille

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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In the civil law. An action under the Aquilian law; an action to recover damages for maliciously or injuriously killing or wounding the slave or beast of another, or injuring in any way a thing belonging to another. Otherwise called damni injuriae actio. Inst. 4. 3; Heinec. Elem. Jur. Civ. lib. 4, tit. 3; Halifax, Anar. bk. 2, c. 24; Bracton, fol. 103b.