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The Early History of Delict and Crime
The Early History of Delict and Crime
ANCIENT LAW
Person injured proceeds against the wrong-doer by an ordinary civil action, and recovers compensation in the shape of money-damages if he succeeds.
Sins
ATHENS (Senate of Areopagus) special religious code
ROME
Every offence vitally touching its security or its interests was punished by a separate enactment of the legislature.
wholly extraordinary wholly irregular wholly independent of settled rules and fixed conditions.
COMITIA CENTURIATA - allowed for the capital punishment akin to one rendered to soldiers.
COMITIA CURIATA - fettered on the sacredness of a Roman citizen and shunned from the grave penalties
COMITIA TRIBUTA - imposed fines only against those make offenses
Community neither feels that it is sufficiently revenged on the criminal, nor thinks that the example of his punishment is adequate to deter others from imitating him.
Ended with the days of the Republic.
REPUBLICAN ROME which served incompetent in enforcing criminal justice having a collective community to avenge wrongs IMPERIAL ROME which monopolized violence as a Sovereign representative of its people to punish crimes.