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TITVLVS II.
...And so on.
PAUL in the book and title cited above. HE WHO carries a weapon for the sake of defending his safety, should not be seen to carry it for the purpose of killing a man. By the name of weapon, not only iron is contained, but everything which has been carried for the sake of doing harm.
THE TITLE ON ASSASSINS
AND HOMICIDES BY ACCIDENT OR WILL ENDS.
BEGINS ON ATROCIOUS
INJURY.
MOSES SAYS.
A decorative drop cap letter S.IF HOWEVER two men contend, and one strikes the other with a stone or a fist, and he has not died, but has lain in bed, and if rising he walks outside with a staff, he who had struck him shall be without crime: except he shall give him [compensation for] the cost of the medical care and the expenses of the cure.
ULPIAN in his "Regular" book under the title "On Injuries." AN INJURY, if it is indeed atrocious, that is, grave, is estimated not without the judgment of the judge. But the Praetor is accustomed to estimate the atrocious [nature of the injury], and I have gathered it from the fact, for example if he was beaten or wounded. And so on.
PAPIANUS in the second book of his "Definitions" under the title "On Adjudicated Matters." THROUGH a free man...