Actio Noxalis
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In the civil law. A noxal action; an action which lay against a master for a crime coiniitted or injury done by his slave; and in which the master had the alternative either to pay for the damage done or to deliver up the slave to the complaining party.
Inst. 4, 8, pr.; Heinece.
Elem. lib.
4, tit. 8.
So called from nowa, the offense or injury committed.
Inst. 4, 8, 1.