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Gaius Aquillius Gallus
Gaius Aquillius
also: C. Aquillius, Aquillius
A distinguished Roman jurist of the late Republic, praetor in 66 BC and friend of Cicero, who devised the formula on malicious fraud (de dolo malo). Cotta cites his action and his definition of fraud among the legal remedies that prove reason serves wickedness.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of the Gods §3.74 the action concerning malicious fraud
The legal formula on deliberate fraud (de dolo malo) devised by the jurist Gaius Aquillius Gallus, who defined fraud as present whenever one thing is pretended and another done. Cotta cites it among the many remedies law had to invent against human cunning.