(Civil law.) The relinquishment of an animal or a slave in settlement of liability. In civil law, the act of a person who was sued in noxal action, i.e., for a tort or trespass committed by his slave or his animal, in relinquishing and abandoning the slave or animal to the person injured, whereby he saved himself from further responsibility.
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