Telum manu fugiens and Involuntary Homicide in Medieval Canon Law
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31261/ZDP.2022.23.08Keywords:
guilt, culpa, casus, Roman law, canon law, Decretum GratianiAbstract
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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