HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE OF THE PRINCIPLE IN POENALIBUS CAUSIS BENIGNIUS INTERPRETANDUM EST Cover Image

HISTORYCZNE ZNACZENIE ZASADY IN POENALIBUS CAUSIS BENIGNIUS INTERPRETANDUM EST
HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE OF THE PRINCIPLE IN POENALIBUS CAUSIS BENIGNIUS INTERPRETANDUM EST

Author(s): Bartosz Zalewski
Subject(s): History of Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego
Keywords: Roman criminal law; legal history; humanitarianism; interpretation of law

Summary/Abstract: Searching the historical roots of the humanitarianism principle, which in some way determinesthe institutional shaping of the legal norms of criminal law and the rules of their interpretation, it isusual to point to the period of Enlightenment. However it should be noted, that the directive requiringthe most favorable interpretation for the perpetrators was already known to Roman law. One of themwas undoubtedly the principle in poenalibus causis benignius interpretandum est. The subject of thispaper is the history of the title legal maxim, from its formulation by the Roman jurist Paulus to thecanon law of the twentieth century.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 22
  • Page Range: 190-200
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish
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