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TITVLVS I.
...will pronounce sentence regarding the penalty of homicide, according to military discipline. Proposed on the day before the Kalends of February, in the second consulship of Laetus.
LIKEWISE GREGORIANUS in the same title and book puts forth such a constitution: EMPEROR Alexander to Aurelius Favius, and other soldiers. IF he for whom you have presented the petition did not cause death by malice, let him not be fearful. For the crime is indeed contracted if the will to kill also intervenes. But those things which happen more by sudden accident than by fraud are for the most part not imputed to fault by fate. Proposed on the 14th of the Kalends of August, in the consulship of Alexander.
LIKEWISE GREGORIANUS in the same book and title gave such a rescript: ...that if the master... Have Agato KN. The nature of the pleas of Iull Antoninus has easily moved our clemency: specifically because he asserts that he committed the homicide not by will but by fortuitous accident, since the occasion of death appears to have been provided by a kick of a heel. If this is so, and it cannot be doubted upon this, we wish him to be freed from all fear and suspicion which he sustains from the danger of the admitted act, according to that which has been comprised in our notation. Given on the day before the Kalends of December, in the 4th consulship of Diocletian Augustus and Maximian.
ULPIAN in the book and title cited above. WHEN someone had provided the cause of death through wantonness, it was approved that the act of Taurinus Egnatius, Procurator...