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criminal law, Roman

2017
“Crime” lacks a fully agreed definition across modern societies, but competing versions tend to stress notions like punishment, protection of public or collective interests, and a pervasive role for the state in proceedings. Over time the Romans used a series of different procedures (successively, trial before the assemblies, by specialized juries, or ...
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Local Understandings of Roman Criminal Law and Procedure in Asia Minor

2020
This chapter deals with the knowledge provincials had, and the use they made, of Roman criminal procedure in the provinces of Asia Minor during the imperial period. This will be examined through two main categories of evidence: (1) petitions to emperors complaining about Roman soldiers or functionaries’ abuses against local population, (2) funerary ...
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Was there a ‘Doctrine of Manifest Guilt’ in the Roman criminal law?

Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, 1987
R.A. Bauman in his bookImpietas in Principemtakes at its face value the abolition ofmaiestasby certain emperors at the beginning of their reigns: he believes that the whole law of treason was suspended during those periods. Since executions and other criminal punishments are recorded, by Tacitus and other writers, as occurring during those same periods,
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Roman Dutch Criminal Law and Calvinism: Calvinist Morality in De Criminibus (1644) of Antonius Matthaeus II

2020
The pervasiveness of Calvinism and Calvinist morality on criminal law in the early modern Dutch Republic, is shown through an analysis of the work of Antonius Matthaeus II, De criminibus (On crimes) of 1644. In Matthaeus’s restatement of criminal law, certain inherent ambiguities of Calvinism become manifest.
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