Lat in the civil law. This term denoted any damage or injury done to persons or property hy an unlawful act com-mitted by a man’s slave or animal. An action for damages lay agalnst the master er owner, who, however, might escape further responsibility hy delivering up the offending agent to the party injured. “Noxa” vrsa al-so used as the designation of the oflense committed, and of its punishment, and some-times of the slave or animal doing the dam-age
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
