The aquilian causality. Connection corpore suo-damnum dare: Gayo 3,219; Ulp. (18 ad ed.) D. 9,1,1,7; IJ 4,3,16

Abstract

As the jurisprudential interpretatio was expanding the list of damages subject to the Aquilia law ordering the praetor to demand the relative responsibility of the author of the damnum through actiones utiles, acquires relevance the concept of causality to demand reparation due exceeding the original limits of the chapter I of the law (occidere corpore suo) to sanction the damnum alio modo datum, and it may be attributed to Gaius 3,219 the contribution of the bases for a general exposition of the causality, that numerous texts carry in the guilty behavior of the offender, treating jurists of find a causality as an inspiring criterion of their decisions, which had no philosophical anchors but practical and immediate..