[A medico-legal problem of the past: invalidation of the sale of a slave in case of concealed disease. Zacchias' opinion].
In his famous "Questions" Paul Zacchias (1584-1659) deals with the medico-legal problem of invalidation of sale of slaves or beasts of burden for concealed redhibitory defects. He analyzes the Roman right always used in his time but does not show any critical mind while he is only compiling and commenting the texts taken from the famous "Edit des Ediles curules". A listing of the redhibitory defects is opposed to the slight vices which do not justify the cancellation of the sale. What is unknown is whether the judge called for a medical appraisal about the reality of the defects, their physical or mental origins, their long-standing development.
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