Actio Noxalis
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In the civH law. A nozal action; an action which lay against a master for a crime committed, or mjury 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. Heinecc.
Elem. lib.
4, tit. 8.
Halifax Anal. b.
3, c. 2.
So called from noxa, the slave or offending person, or nooria, the offence or injury itself.
Inst. 4. 8. 1.