In the civil law. The act of a person who was sued in a 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 any further responsibility. See lust. 4, 8, 9; Fitzgerald v. Ferguson, 11 La. Aim. 396.
Definition of Abandonment For Torts
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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
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Ballentine's Law DictionaryThe relinquishment of an animal or a slave in settlement of liability.