Actio Noxalis
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In the civil law. A noxal action; an action which lay against a master for a crime committed 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.; Heinec.
Elem. Jur. Civ. lib.
4, tit. 8; Halifax, Anal, bk. 3, c. 2.
So called from noxa, the slave or offending person or noxia, the offense or injury itself.
Inst. 4. 8. 1.