Lex Aquilia

<p>The <em>Lex Aquilia</em> deals with unlawful and accidental damages and gives a civil remedy for damage to property. It is important as the basis of the general principle of liability to person and property in later Roman law. The <em>Lex Aquila</em> is difficult to interpret and it has inspired a great deal of contemporary and later commentary. Thayer's bilingual edition presents the text with a summary of commentary (in English) by scholars from the Medieval era through the 1920s. The second part contains the Latin text of <em>De Donationibus</em> with extensive notes (in English) by Thayer.</p>