CIRCUMSTANCES EXCLUDING CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR MURDER UNDER THE VISIGOTHIC CODE
https://doi.org/ 10.18384/2310-6794-2017-2-47-53
Abstract
The article analyses the criminal legislation of the Kingdom of the Visigoths. The author examines the issue of the existence of circumstances excluding criminal responsibility for murder. Paying attention to a number of specific features of the medieval criminal law, the author achieves the stated goal. He proves the existence of an institution of necessary defense and a number of other circumstances that exclude the criminality of the act in Spanish medieval legislation.
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