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Krey, V. (2022). 'About the Criminal Liability of Wives for Adultery' In M. Engelhart, H. Kudlich, & B. Vogel (Eds.), Digitalisierung, Globalisierung und Risikoprävention (2nd ed., pp. 235-253)
Krey, Volker. "About the Criminal Liability of Wives for Adultery: A Classic Example of Oppressing Women Reflections on the Legal History of Roman Antiquity". Digitalisierung, Globalisierung und Risikoprävention, edited by Marc Engelhart, Hans Kudlich and Benjamin Vogel, Duncker & Humblot, 2022, pp. 235-253.
Krey, V. (2022): 'About the Criminal Liability of Wives for Adultery', in Engelhart, M, Kudlich, H, Vogel, B (eds.). Digitalisierung, Globalisierung und Risikoprävention. Duncker & Humblot, pp. 235-253.
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About the Criminal Liability of Wives for Adultery
A Classic Example of Oppressing Women Reflections on the Legal History of Roman Antiquity
In: Digitalisierung, Globalisierung und Risikoprävention (2022), pp. 235–253
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Volker Krey
Krey, Volker, Prof. Dr., Universität Trier
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Volker Krey, About the Criminal Liability of Wives for Adultery … Pre-State Societies, the Code of Hammurabi with Sumerian Precursors, and Germanic Law, in Festschrift for Gerhard Robbers, 2020, p. 69–90.
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Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volker Krey: About the Criminal Liability of Wives for Adultery. A Classic Example of Oppressing Women\rReflections on the Legal History of Roman Antiquity | 235 | ||
| I. Introduction | 235 | ||
| II. Chapter One: The Roman Republic | 236 | ||
| 1. Private Criminal Law and the Law of the Twelve Tables | 236 | ||
| 2. Adultery of Wives and the Legal Situation During the Late Roman Republic | 238 | ||
| 3. In Case of Adultery: Extent and Barriers of the Patria Potestas of the Pater Familias over his Wife or his Married Daughter Respectively of the Manus of such Daughter’s Husband over his Wife. Blatant Discrimination of Wives in Case of Adultery | 241 | ||
| a) Extent and Barriers of such Patria Potestas Respectively Manus of the Spouse | 241 | ||
| aa) Extent of Such Powers De Lege Lata (the Customary Law at that Time) | 241 | ||
| bb) Barriers of the Patria Potestas and the Manus of a Husband in Case of a Wife’s Adultery | 243 | ||
| III. Chapter Two: The Roman Imperial Era | 247 | ||
| 1. Introductionary Remarks: About the Increasing Decline of the Criminal Law During the Roman Imperial Era | 247 | ||
| a) The Early Roman Imperial Era (Classic Imperial Era) | 248 | ||
| b) The Late Roman Imperial Era (Post-Classical Imperial Era) | 249 | ||
| 2. The Regulations on Adultery According to the Lex Julia de Adulteriis Coercendis from the Early Imperial Era | 250 | ||
| a) Criminal Responsibility of Wives for Adultery | 250 | ||
| b) Criminal Responsibility of the Wife’s Lover (her Sexual Partner) | 250 | ||
| c) No Punishment for Adulterous Men | 251 | ||
| d) Ban on Killing his Wife for Adultery, Laid Down in the Lex Iulia de Adulteriis Coercendis of Augustus | 251 | ||
| e) Right of the Pater Familias to Kill his Adulterous Daughter and her Lover | 252 | ||
| 3. Aggravation of the Punishment for Adultery During the Late Roman Imperial Era (Post-Classical Imperial Era) | 252 | ||
| IV. Chapter Three: A Brief Look at the Reasons for the Blatant Misogyny under the Roman Law | 253 |