Apology

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Atonement ( lat. Deprecatio ) means asking for forgiveness or forgiveness of guilt . In religious contexts one often speaks of atonement . Someone does or makes amends for something with someone.

Legal history

The Roman law stems (lat. Injurienklage the actio iniuriarum aestimatoria ) that for every deliberate intervention in the private law sphere ( injuria ) provided for a satisfaction in money.

According to Germanic legal concepts, the apologies, mentioned for example in Art. 216 of the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina and the feud, were added. Until the 19th century, apology was a punishment to be determined by the judge in German law, which in the event of defamation was pronounced either alone or in addition to a fine and in addition to the declaration of honor and the revocation of the insult. Occasionally the punishment was increased, e.g. B. by calling in the executioner , kneeling apology and the like. Since the end of the 19th century, apologies have been in the form of (unsuccessful) atonement negotiations, for example according to Section 380 StPO as a prerequisite for a private lawsuit for insult .

Today this expression is also used ironically .

literature

  • Karlheinz Bartels: The dogmatics of defamation in the science of common law up to the end of the 18th century, Göttingen 1955

Web links

Wiktionary: Atonement  - Explanation of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. Roland Wiltmann: The lines of development of the classic injunction suit . In: ZRG . Romance Department. Volume 91, Issue 1, pp. 285-359
  2. Embarrassing neck court order of Emperor Charles V (Constitutio Criminalis Carolina) from 1532 (PDF) p. 57
  3. Atonement . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894–1896, Volume 20, p. 1.