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INIURIA ALTERI FACTA ПРЕТКЛАСИЧНОГ РИМСКОГ ПРАВА
INIURIA ALTERI FACTA OF THE PRECLASSICAL ROMAN LAW

Author(s): Andreja B. Katančević
Subject(s): History of Law
Published by: Правни факултет Универзитета у Београду

Summary/Abstract: This is an attempt to offer a new reading of a short sentence of the Twelve Tables, and to solve the puzzle of the legal protection of honor in preclassical Roman law. Relying on various opinions expressed in the literature, here are given a new answers to the two questions. Firstly, what the Twelve Tables included under the iniuria alteri facta. Secondly, how did the delict spread to the notion of iniuria of whom the classical lawyers wrote. Author tries to challenge the generally accepted view that iniuria alteri facta originally was light bodily injury which later included insults, proving that the legal evolution went in reverse.

  • Issue Year: 58/2010
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 288-303
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Serbian