Problems of the Roman Criminal Law, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

This book has developed out of a criticism of Mommsen sR bmisches Strafrecht, published in theE nglish. Historical Review for A pril 1902. Paragraphs from that article are by the kind permission of theE ditor embedded in these pages. I ventured at the time to prophesy that future workers in the field would necessarily take Mommsen sgreat treatise as the foundation of their labours. As my work progressed, I have found this more and more true in my own case,, and I should wish my book to be regarded as, in the main, a supplement toM ommsen. In the first place the presence of Mommsen sS trafrecht absolves me from the task of attempting a complete and systematic account of the Roman Criminal Law; and I am thus enabled to concentrate attention on certain definite problems and difficulties, lying thickly along the main lines of the subject, which seem to call urgently for solution ;in dealing with these, however, I have endeavoured to indicate something of a continuous thread of principle and development. In the second place, the narrowing of the field enables me to attempt that which Mommsen declared impossible for himself in the span of life allotted to him, namely, to discuss the arguments and opinions of modern scholars on the various questions in dispute.
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