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Furtum and Larceny

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

P. W. Duff
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Anyone who studies side by side the Roman law of furtum and the English law of larceny must be struck by the fact that, whereas Roman thieves and English thieves behave much alike, Roman lawyers in discussing theft usually assume that a civil action is being brought, for money damages, but English lawyers are mainly concerned with criminal prosecution, leading to a fine, or imprisonment, or, in former times, to the gallows.

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The Cambridge Law Journal , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , April 1954 , pp. 86 - 88
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Copyright © Cambridge Law Journal and Contributors 1954

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1 For an illuminating, but purely academic, discussion of this fragment, see Olivecrona, Karl, Three Essays in Roman Law, Copenhagen, 1949, pp. 43–51.Google Scholar