The origin and development of the moral ideasWestermarck, Edward
Philosophy
The origin and development of the moral ideas
Westermarck, Edward
Ethics; Ethics -- History; Prehistoric peoples
through an open door and one that committed a burglary; the latter was
a _larron_, and was to be punished as such.[48] The repetition of a
crime aggravated the punishment;[49] {258} and the animal "principal"
was punished more severely than the "accessories.[50]
[Footnote 35: Leibniz, _Essais de Theodicée_, p. 182 _sq._ Lessona,
quoted by d'Addosio, _Bestie delinquenti_, p. 145.]
[Footnote 36: St. Augustine, _Quæstiones in Leviticum_, 74 (_ad Lev._
xx. 16): "Nam pecora inde credendum est jussa interfici, quia tali
flagitio contaminata, indignam refricant facti memoriam" (Migne,
_Patrologiæ cursus_, xxxiv. 709).]
[Footnote 37: Gratian, _Decretum_, ii. 15. 1. 4. _Cf._ _Mishna_, fol.
54, quoted by Rabbinowicz, _Législation criminelle du Talmud_, p. 116.]
[Footnote 38: Ayrault, _Des procès faicts au cadaver, aux cendres, à
la mémoire, aux bestes brutes_, fol. 24. Ortolan, _Éléments du droit
pénal_, p. 188. Tissot, _Le droit pénal_, i. 19 _sq._]
[Footnote 39: Thonissen, _Le droit pénal de la république Athénienne_,
p. 414.]
[Footnote 40: Du Boys, quoted by d'Addosio, _op. cit._ p. 139.]
[Footnote 41: Lessona, quoted _ibid._ p. 145.]
[Footnote 42: _Cf._ Post, _Die Grundlagen des Rechts_, p. 359;
Friedrichs, 'Mensch und Person,' in _Das Ausland_, 1891, pp. 300, 315;
and, especially, d'Addosio, _op. cit._ p. 146 _sqq._: "Nel medioevo si
punì l'animale perchè lo si ritenne in certo modo _conscio_ delle sue
azioni, in certo modo _libero_, in certo modo _responsabile_."]
[Footnote 43: von Amira. _op. cit._ p. 9.]
[Footnote 44: Beaumanoir, _Les coutumes du Beauvoisis_, lxix. 6, vol.
ii. 485 _sq._ Chambers, _op. cit._ i. 127. Lichtenberg, _Vermischte
Schriften_, iv. 481.]
[Footnote 45: _Lex Salica_, edited by Hessels, coll. 209-212, 215.]
[Footnote 46: _Ancient Laws of Ireland_, iv. 179.]
[Footnote 47: Chambers, _op. cit._ i. 128.]
[Footnote 48: _Ancien Coutumier de Bourgogne_, 23 (_Revue historique
de droit français et étranger_, iii. 549): "Il deust hauoir faire
justice del larron."]
[Footnote 49: Pertile, _loc. cit._ p. 148: "La _Carta de Logu_
d'Eleonora giudicessa d'Arborea (1395) prescrive: che venendo trovato
un asino in danno sui fondi altrui, per la prima volta gli si tagli un
orecchio; la seconda, l'altro; e la terza, si confischi la bestia
consegnandola alla corte principesca." _Cf._ _Vendîdâd_,
xiii. 32 _sqq._]
[Footnote 50: d'Addosio, _op. cit._ p. 16.]
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