Telum manu fugiens and Involuntary Homicide in Medieval Canon Law
Telum manu fugiens and Involuntary Homicide in Medieval Canon Law

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

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