Mosaycarum et Romanarum legum collatio

TITVLVS III.

nor with which hand he struck. Thus if he says that he was defamed, he ought to add how he was defamed. For thus the formula is also conceived: THAT NUMERIUS NIGIDIUS BROUGHT HIM BEFORE AULUS AGERIUS FOR THE SAKE OF DEFAMATION.

PAVLVS in the book of Sentences under the title to the Cornelian Law on assassins and poisoners. A suitable cause of death does not seem to exist when a man, having been harmed, dies after some days while retaining the duty of a long life, unless perhaps he had been beaten to death or lethally wounded.

BEGINS ON THE LAW AND CRUELTY OF MASTERS.

MOSES SAYS.

A decorative initial S represents the start of the section.IF ANYONE strikes a male or female slave with a rod, and he has died in his hands, it shall be avenged by judgment. But if he survives for one day or two, it shall not be avenged, for he is his own price.

PAVLVS in the book of Sentences under the title to the Cornelian law on assassins and poisoners says: If a slave should fail from beatings, unless it is done with malice, the master cannot be accused of homicide. For it was decided that the measure of punishing and the restraint of slaves should be tempered.