Note 78 — Chapter I · THE EARLIEST CONSTITUTION OF ROME
Reading edition
This jus noxae dationis first disappears finally in the law of Justinian (Inst. iv. 8, 7; Dig. 43, 29, 3, 4). Before its abolition a modification had been introduced by the rule that, when the child had acquired an equivalent for the damage he had caused (quantum damni dedit), the owner should be forced to manumit him.