GENEZA INSTYTUCJI ŚWIADKA

Adam Maciej Dytkowski

doi:10.31648/cetl.3510

Published: 2019-07-061

Vol. 22 No. 2 (2019)

The genesis of a witness

Adam Maciej Dytkowski

Civitas et Lex

Section: Legal Sciences

https://doi.org/10.31648/cetl.3510

Abstract

The article concerns the genesis of bearing witness in the oldest court proceedings. It answers the question of who and when could act as a witness according to the Mesopotamian and Roman laws. Moreover, it explains the circumstances in which witnesses were used and by under what rigour, as well as determines their legal position in the analyzed legal systems of antiquity.

Keywords:

witness, law, institution, security, order, deposition, responsibility, punishment, crime, defendant

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Dytkowski, A. M. (2019). The genesis of a witness. Civitas Et Lex, 22(2), 55–65. https://doi.org/10.31648/cetl.3510

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