Precautions for Prosecutors (Cautio Criminalis)

...tomed to distinguish [crimes]: some are common and ordinary, such as theft, homicide, and the like; others are more atrocious and grave, which tend more directly toward the harm of the common good and afflict the State original: Remp. or Respublica, referring to the body politic or commonwealth in a striking manner. These are such as: the crime of high treason original: crimen laesae majestatis; literally "injured majesty," the highest crime against the ruler or state, according to the final law of the Code, section "On Accusations," and the law "Since the children" in the Code, section "On Witnesses," etc.; the crime of heresy, according to the chapter "In favor of the faith," law 6, "On Heretics"; the crime of Witches original: crimen Sagarum, according to the final law of the Code, section "On Sorcerers and Astrologers" original: maleficis & mathematicis; in Roman law, "mathematicians" often referred to practitioners of forbidden occult arts or fortunetellers; the crime of betrayal, according to the second-to-last and final laws of the Code, section "On the Julian Law of Majesty"; the crime of conspiracy, according to the final chapter, "On compelling witnesses"; the crime of counterfeiting, according to the final law of the Code, section "On False Money"; and the crime of banditry, according to the law of the Emperor Hadrian in the Digests, section "On the custody and production of defendants," and the second-to-last law of the Code, section "On holidays." These crimes are usually called Excepted. This name comes from the fact that they are "excepted" from the common or ordinary disposition of the law, so that there is no need to bind oneself to that mode of proceeding against them which the laws otherwise prescribe in other cases.

THE REASON for this is that since they are most ruinous to the State and harm it extraordinarily, it seems just that they should also be restrained by