Published: 2022-12-30

Telum manu fugiens and Involuntary Homicide in Medieval Canon Law

Maciej Jońca Logo ORCID
Section: Rozprawy i artykuły
https://doi.org/10.31261/ZDP.2022.23.08

Abstract

Medieval jurists succeeded in making the first attempts, which then made it possible to rank the degrees of guilt as follows: dolus – culpa – casus. Roman law addressed cases of unintentional crimes in a descriptive manner. For the manslaughter situation, they used the description of a weapon that escaped someone’s hand on its own and caused a someone’s death. A regulation of this kind has already appeared in the Law of the XII Tables. The topos of a weapon that itself escapes from a man’s hand was also used by early Christian writers. From there it made its way into medieval compilations of canon law.

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Jońca, M. (2022). Telum manu fugiens and Involuntary Homicide in Medieval Canon Law. [journal Closed], 15, 27–47. https://doi.org/10.31261/ZDP.2022.23.08

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Vol. 15 (2022)
Published: 2024-01-12


ISSN: 1898-6986
eISSN: 2353-9879

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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