ANAGO´GES DIKE´
ANAGO´GES DIKE´ (
ἀναγωγῆς δίκη). If an individual sold a slave who had some
secret disease--such, for instance, as epilepsy--without informing the
purchaser of the circumstance, it was in the power of the latter to bring an
action against the vendor within a certain time, which was fixed by the
laws. In order to do this, he had to report (
ἀνάγειν) to the proper authorities the nature of the disease;
whence the action was called
ἀναγωγῆς
δίκη. The details in Plato (
Leg. xi. p. 916, A-C)
appear to be partly taken from the Athenian Law, but with additional minute
regulations of his own. The
ἀναγωγῆς δίκη
was probably confined to actions against the seller of a slave, though Meier
thinks otherwise (
Att. Process, p. 525); other cases were
provided for by the
βλαβῆς δίκη.). (
Hesych. sub voce
ἀναγωγή; Suid. s. v.
ἐναγωγή, ἐνάγεσθαι.
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