Some Remarks on the Issue of Suicide in Roman Criminal Law
Some Remarks on the Issue of Suicide in Roman Criminal Law

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses the issue of suicide in the sources of Roman law, primarily criminal law. In the course of that it will focus on the following key points: after a few introductory remarks outlining the Roman custom of committing suicide, first it will discuss the judgement of suicide in criminal law in general; then it will examine the appearance of the culprit’s suicide as grounds for exclusion of culpability (and limits thereof) in sources in imperial law; finally, it will briefly analyse the legal position of suicide in military criminal law.

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