[GAIUS libro secundo ad edictum prouinciale. ] §9.4.1.prNoxales actiones appellantur, quae non ex contractu, sed ex noxa atque maleficio seruorum aduersus nos instituuntur: quarum actionum uis et potestas haec est, ut, si damnati fuerimus, liceat nobis deditione ipsius corporis quod deliquerit euitare litis aestimationem.
[GAIUS, Book 2 on the Provincial Edict] Noxal actions are those which are instituted against us, not from contract, but from the harm and wrongdoing of slaves; the force and power of which actions is this: that, if we should be condemned, we are permitted to avoid the assessment of damages by the surrender of the very body which committed the wrong.