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Culpa, an act of neglect, causing damage, but not implying an ntentto injure, of which the Roman jurists recognized two: (1) Culpa lata, culta latior, magna culpa, gross neglect, treated very much like fraud; culpa magna dolus est, dolo proxima. (2) Culpa, without any epithet, or omnis culpa, culpa levis,levior; or levissima, slight neglect, Cum.Civ. Law, 279; Snad. Just.