Ad edictum provinciale libri
Ex libro II
Ad Dig. 5,1,8Windscheid: Lehrbuch des Pandektenrechts, 7. Aufl. 1891, Bd. II, § 284, Note 8.Gaius, On the Provincial Edict, Book II. Where anyone, during his mission, agrees to make payment of an obligation which he contracted before becoming an envoy, he cannot be compelled to defend himself in the place where he made the promise.
Gaius, On the Provincial Edict, Book II. Those actions are called noxal which are brought against us, not with reference to any contract, but as the result of some injury or delinquency committed by slaves; and the force and effect of such actions is that, if judgment is rendered against us, we can avoid the payment of damages by the surrender of the body of him who committed the offence.
Gaius, On the Provincial Edict, Book II. A minor who is near the age of puberty is capable of theft and the commission of injury. 1Penal actions growing out of breaches of the law do not pass against the heir, as, for instance, those of theft, wrongful damage, robbery with violence, and injury.