Mosaycarum et Romanarum legum collatio

HERE BEGINS THE LAW OF GOD WHICH
GOD ORDAINED FOR
MOSES.

A decorative drop cap letter M features floral and scrollwork patterns.MOSES, THE PRIEST OF GOD,
SAYS THIS. If anyone strikes a
man with iron, and kills him, let him die the death. But if he strikes with his hand or a stone by which he could die, and he has died, he is a murderer: let him die the death. But if through enmity he has pushed him, or has thrown some vessel upon him out of ambush, and he has died: or if through anger he has struck him with his hand and he has died, let him die the death.

PAUL also, in the fifth book of his Sententiae under the title "On the Cornelian Law concerning assassins and poisoners," says: The Cornelian law inflicts the punishment of deportation upon him who has killed a man, and for the sake of that deed, has been with a weapon for the purpose of committing theft: and upon him who has had poison for the purpose of killing a man, or has sold it, or prepared it, or has given false testimony by which someone has perished, or has provided the cause of death. It has been resolved that all these crimes be avenged by capital punishment in the case of the more honorable; but the lower classes are either lifted onto a cross, or are subjected to beasts.

ULPIAN in book 7 "On the duties of the Proconsul," under the title "On assassins and poisoners." It is provided in the first chapter of the Cornelian law, THAT THE PRAETOR or the judge of the inquiry, to whom by chance the inquiry regarding assassins has come, of that which has been done in the city of Rome or within a thousand paces, shall inquire with the judges who have fallen to him by lot according to the law, regarding the capital case of him who has walked with a weapon for the purpose of killing a man or committing theft, or has killed a man, by whose evil intent that was done. And the rest. Having cited the words of the law, Ulpian himself speaks: This law does not punish everyone who walks with a weapon, but restricts and restrains only him who carries a weapon for the purpose of killing a man or for committing theft. Likewise, it restrains him who has killed a man, nor did it add of what condition the man is, so that this law seems to pertain to both a slave and a foreigner.