Noxal surrender

{{Short description|Ancient Roman legal provision for crimes committed by a dependent}}

Noxal surrender was a provision of Roman law when a delict was brought against a paterfamilias for a wrong committed by a son or slave. The defendant had the option in that instance of surrendering the dependent rather than paying the full damages.Alan Watson, Roman Law & Comparative Law (London: University of Georgia, 1991), 75.{{Cite book |last1=Frier |first1=Bruce W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jg8wp9crNhkC |title=A Casebook on Roman Family Law |last2=McGinn |first2=Thomas A. |date=2004 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-516185-4 |pages=292 |language=en}}