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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Lat. In the civil law. This term denoted any damage or injury done to persons or property by an unlawful act comtitted by a man’s slave or animal, An action for damages lay against the master or owner, who, however, might escape further responsibility,by delivering up the offending agent to the party injured. “ora” was also used as the designation of the offense committed, and of its punishment, and sometimes of the slave or animal doing the damage, Noxa sequitur caput. The injury [7.¢., liability te make good an injury caused bya slave] follows the head or person, [2, ¢., af taches to his master.] Heineec, Elem. 1, 4, %.
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