We have now sketched the framework within which to appreciate how the Roman jurists applied and interpreted the individual requirements for condemnation in terms of the lex Aquiiia.

It is obvious that, in order to be liable, the defendant had to have brought about some kind of harmful result: an object must have been damaged and the damage must have arisen as the result of some conduct of the wrongdoer.

Both the result and the wrongdoer's action were described in the first chapter with the words "servum servamve alienum alienamve quadrupedem vel pecudem... occidere", while the third chapter referred to "damnum facere", specified by the terms "mere frangere rumpere". But in neither case were these merely objective, or factual, require­ments sufficient. If it was to rate as an Aquilian delict, occidere, mere frangere rumpere (or, more generally: damnum facere) had to be evaluated in a specific manner: it had to be labelled "iniuria". Under both chapters, iniuria was thus the essential term that gave the injury inflicted its distinctly delictual flavour.

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