noxal actton

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noxal actton - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  NOXAL ACTTON, civil law. A personal, arbitrary, and indirect action in favor 
  of one who has been injured by the slave of another, by which the owner or 
  master of the slave was compelled either to pay the damages or abandon the 
  slave. Vide Abandonment for torts, and Inst. 4, 8; Dig. 9, 4; Code, 3, 41.