Cal;)*  then  being  cbancteriied  by  an  act  of

foettiaa  alwayi  ia,  how  br  ii  the  pmon  charged
with  cvlpa  bound  to  look  after  Ibe  intereit  of  an-
oclter,  or  to  uie  djligenti^  There  ia  ^o  loch  ge-
wn)  obligadon,  but  there  ii  nch  oUigalion  in
p-j«i™l-r  ois.  Cul[a  ii  Kmetime*  divided  into
Ian,  lent  ■^  leriHima.    Lota  culpa  "  eat  nimiu


id  eil,  Don  intellirere  qued  omnei
utetiJgunt.'' (Dig.  60.  tiL  16.  a  213.)  If  then  one
man  injured  the  property  of  another  by  gnua  care-
leianeu,  he  waa  alwayi  bound  to  make  good  [ho
damage  (damnum  praeatara).  Such  culpa  waa  not
dolua,  became  them  wai  not  intention  or  deaign,
but  it  wai  aa  bad  in  ita  contequencei  to  the  penon
charged  with  iL

Lerii  culpa  it  negligence  of  a  amaller  degree.
He  who  i*  aniweraUe  ftir  lena  culpa,  ia  anawer-
able  for  injury  aiiued  to  the  property  of  another
by  Bome  omiuion,  which  a  carehil  peiaou  could
baie  preTeuIed.  For  inilance,  in  the  case  of  a
thing  lent  [Couhodatuu],  a  mwi  muit  take  at
laut  aa  mach  care  of  it  aa  a  carefiil  man  doea  of
bia  own  property.  There  ii  nevet  any  culpa,  if
the  peraon  charged  with  it  hai  done  in  that  the
moat  carefiil  p«non  coidd  do  to  preieni  loia  or
damage.  Leviaiima  culpa  came  within  the  mean-
ing of  the  lenn  cul^w  is  the  lex  Aquilia ;  that  b,
any  injury  that  happened  to  one  nian>  property
thnngh  the  conduct  of  another,  for  want  of  aucn
care  a*  the  molt  careful  penon  would  take,  waa  a
culpa,  and  therefore  pnniihable.  But  the  eiprei-
iion  lei-iitima  culpa  ia  aaid  to  occur  only  once  in
the  Digcat  (Dig.  9.  tit  2.  i.  41).
