Historical, Philosophical, Political and Law Sciences, Culturology and Study of Art. Issues of Theory and Practice. Tambov: Gramota, 2012. № 10. Part 2. P. 212-215.
STRUGGLE AGAINST UNSCRUPULOUS PROSECUTORS IN CRIMINAL COURTS OF LATE ROMAN REPUBLIC
Khrustalev Vyacheslav Konstantinovich
Russian State Pedagogical University named after A. I. Gertsen
Abstract. The author analyzes the struggle against various types of unscrupulous prosecution revealed in the practice of the Roman criminal courts during the period of the Late Republic:calumnia,praevaricatio,tergiversation, considers these crimes as necessary evil under the conditions of the absence of public prosecutors institution in ancient Rome, and comes to the conclusion that Roman legislators certainly undertook the attempts of the struggle against unscrupulous prosecutors but they did not reach their goal.
Key words and phrases: Поздняя римская республика, общественные обвинители, ложное обвинение, преварикация, Late Roman Republic, public prosecutors, false accusation, prevarication
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