| Keywords |
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| ID |
5238 |
| Text |
Edictus Rothari (643 - 643) Rothari, Rothair |
| Quotation |
Si servus dum in fuga est, furtum aut damnum alii fecerit, et in ipsa fuga foris provincia migraverit et non redierit, tunc dominus servi medietatem pro ipsam rem quam furavit, aut damnum si fecit restituat… |
| Translation |
If an enslaved man commits a theft or does some damage while he is in flight, and if in his flight he goes out of the country and does not return, then the enslaved man's lord shall restore half of that which the slave took or of the damage which he caused...
(Emended from K. Fischer-Drew, trans., The Lombard Laws (1973), p. 103) |
| Summary |
Rothari, No. 256 establishes that should an enslaved man flee and commit theft or inflict some damage while in flight, then his lord is only laible for half the damage. The law goes on to state that should the enslaved man be returned into the lord’s control, then the lord becomes then responsible for returning the full ammount to the victim, but without further penalty as the theft or damage where inflicted when the enslaved man was in flight. |
| Quotation source |
MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), pp. 62-63 |
| Temporal Coverage |
643 - 643 |
| Associated use case(s) |
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| Comment |
The Edictus Rothari forms part of the collected Edictus Langobardorum [Text, ID:984]. |
