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Lex Hostilia

Lex Hostilia enabled the actio furti to be brought by an agent on behalf of any person who (or whose tutor) was in foreign captivity or absent reipublicae causa (Inst. 4.10, pr.).

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.