Strafrechtlicher Schutz von Sklaven gegen Willkür ihrer Herren
im vorchristlichen, im christlichen Altertum und im Frühmittelalter
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In the 2nd century CE, Roman emperors took decisions on several cases involving slaves who had been brutally treated by their masters. Such masters had to accept that their slaves would be sold, and in some cases they themselves were even punished, e.g. by being temporarily exiled. In the early 3rd century Ulpian construed a new crime from this context, namely saevitia dominorum, to be punished extraordinarily. Diocletian undermined this in a rescript to a soldier, and Constantine openly allowed masters to punish their slaves just as they liked. Even if a punishment lead to the slave’s dead, he forbade investigation against the masters. Both the Visigothic Lex Romana and Justinian tried to come to compromises, which continued even into Frankish times, although the results were inconsistent. Only the Judeo-Christian Collatio preserved Ulpian’s concept of a new crime, but the secular lawyers took no notice of this text, whereas medieval clerical jurists did.
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Sueton, Claudius 25,2. Antoninus Pius sollte das verallgemeinern, wie Gai. inst. 1,53 (S. 1 Hs. 2) berichtete. Dazu Olivia Robinson, Slaves and the criminal law, Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Romanistische Abteilung 98 (1981), S. 219 f.
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Vgl. Melito von Sardes bei Euseb, Ecclesiastica historica 4,26,5.
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Agathias, Historiae 2,7; dazu Detlef Liebs, Konflikte zwischen römischen und germanischen Rechtsvorstellungen, in: Von den Leges barbarorum bis zum ius barbarum des Nationalsozialismus, Festschrift für Hermann Nehlsen zum 70. Geburtstag, Köln 2008, S. 99-117, hier 114.
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Strafrechtlicher Schutz von Sklaven gegen Willkür ihrer Herren
im vorchristlichen, im christlichen Altertum und im Frühmittelalter
In: Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis / Revue d'histoire du droit / The Legal History ReviewSearch for other papers by Detlef Liebs in
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In the 2nd century CE, Roman emperors took decisions on several cases involving slaves who had been brutally treated by their masters. Such masters had to accept that their slaves would be sold, and in some cases they themselves were even punished, e.g. by being temporarily exiled. In the early 3rd century Ulpian construed a new crime from this context, namely saevitia dominorum, to be punished extraordinarily. Diocletian undermined this in a rescript to a soldier, and Constantine openly allowed masters to punish their slaves just as they liked. Even if a punishment lead to the slave’s dead, he forbade investigation against the masters. Both the Visigothic Lex Romana and Justinian tried to come to compromises, which continued even into Frankish times, although the results were inconsistent. Only the Judeo-Christian Collatio preserved Ulpian’s concept of a new crime, but the secular lawyers took no notice of this text, whereas medieval clerical jurists did.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
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