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Lex Pesulania

Lex Pesulania seems to have extended to dogs the rule of the Twelve Tables (Inst. 4.9, pr.; Dirksen, Uebersicht, &c. p. 532), that if damage were done by an animal the owner must either surrender it or pay compensation (Paul. Sent. rec. 1.15, 1).

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.