词条 | Li livres de jostice et de plet |
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The first book of the Livres is a free translation of the first three paragraphs of the Digest. It is not a coutoumier (compilation of customary law) and most of the customary law it cites is limited to Orléans. Among the royal acts it reproduces is one of Saint Louis from 1254, in which the king depicted as judge declares himself the guardian of the peace and rest of his subjects: nos deserrens de la dete de la real poesté la pez et le respous de nos sojeiz. The Livres may have influenced the later legislation of Philip the Fair. Examples
With regards to the law of fiefs, the Livres states that dukes, counts, viscounts, and barons could all hold their land from one another.[2] The Livres also states that la bone devise de droit des persones, des gens, est tele que tot homes ou il sont franc ou serf: "the good division of the law of persons is that all men are either free or servile."[3] This law is based on the Digest but the meaning of the word servi that the medieval author translates "serf" meant "slave".
The Livres, by defining treason (traïson) as férir, et l'en ne voie pas le cop venir (to wound [someone], and when the blow could not be seen coming), declared all crossbowmen to be traitors, since nobody could see their blows coming.
The Livres has provided scholars with unique insight into medieval legal attitudes to sexual crimes. It does not lay out punishment for prostitutes, preferring to reintegrate them into society in accordance with canon law. It does, however, prescribe the banishment and confiscation of property of the maquerel des femmes (procurer) and the owner of a brothel (bordelerie).[4] It also describes penalties for male homosexuality and is the first known work to describe penalties for lesbianism as well. On the first offence the male sodomite was to be castrated, on the second dismembered, and on the third burned alive. The lesbian offender was to be dismembered on the first two offences (although exactly what two "members" were to be cut off is uncertain) and burned alive on the third. All their goods accrued to the crown.[5] Bibliography
Notes1. ^Donahue, p. 62 n16. {{DEFAULTSORT:Livres de jostice}}2. ^Reynolds, p .288. 3. ^Kim, p. 2. 4. ^Otis, p. 162 n32. 5. ^Boswell, pp. 289–90. 5 : French law|13th-century books|Legal treatises|13th century in law|13th century in France |
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