anagoges 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. 11. 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. s. v. ἀναγωγή; Suid. s. v. ἐναγωγή, ἐνάγεσθαι.

(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. See Servus.