What is NOXA

Lat. In the civil law . This term denoted any damage or injury done to persons or property by au unlawful act committed 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 . “Noxa” was also used as the designation of the offense committed, and of its punishment, and some- times of the slave or animal doing the damage. Noxa sequitur caput. The injury [1. e., liability to make good an Injury caused by a slave] follows the head or person, [f. e., attaches to his master.] Helnecc. Elem. 1. 4, t. 8,