CHAPTER III. Action to Repair Damages

Can. 1729 §1. In the penal trial itself an injured party can bring a contentious action to repair damages incurred

personally from the delict, according to the norm of can. 1596.

§2. The intervention of the injured party mentioned in §1 is not admitted later if it was not made in the first

grade of the penal trial.

§3. The appeal in a case for damages is made according to the norm of cann. 1628–1640 even if an appeal

cannot be made in the penal trial; if both appeals are proposed, although by different parties, there is to be a single

appellate trial, without prejudice to the prescript of can. 1730.

Can. 1730 §1. To avoid excessive delays in the penal trial the judge can defer the judgment for damages until he

has rendered the definitive sentence in the penal trial.

§2. After rendering the sentence in the penal trial, the judge who does this must adjudicate for damages even

if the penal trial still is pending because of a proposed challenge or the accused has been absolved for a cause which

does not remove the obligation to repair damages.

Can. 1731 Even if the sentence rendered in a penal trial has become a res iudicata, it in no way establishes the right

of the injured party unless this party has intervened according to the norm of can. 1729.