Manus iniectio

The manus iniectio (Latin for the laying on of hands) is the institute of enforcement proceedings in early Roman law . It denotes the ritual grasping of an accused ( manus iniectio ) after a previous judgment and is already documented by the Twelve Tables Act . Thus it belongs to the oldest fixed form of the Roman process, the legislative procedure . The enforcement procedure was carried out by means of the legis actio per manus iniectionem .

For this on panel I of the Twelve Tables Act:

Si in ius vocat, ito. Ni it, antestamino. Igitur em capito.

If he (another) calls to court, let him (the other) go.

If he (the other) does not go, witnesses should be called in.

Then he should take it.

The aim of the manus iniectio was to persuade an accused to come before the judge. Only he could accept or reject a lawsuit ( datio / denegatio actionis ).

A surety ( vindex ) could intervene and withdraw the defendant's access, but the prerequisite for this was that the underlying debt had not already been fulfilled via a loan ( certa pecunia ).

literature

Herbert Hausmaninger , Walter Selb : Römisches Privatrecht , Böhlau, Vienna 1981 (9th edition 2001) (Böhlau study books) ISBN 3-205-07171-9 , p. 373 f.
Wolfgang Kunkel / Martin Schermaier : Roman Legal History , 14th revised edition. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2005, ISBN 3-412-28305-3 , ( UTB 2225 legal history , ISBN 3-8252-2225-X , ISSN 0340-7225 ), content

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Herbert Hausmaninger , Walter Selb : Römisches Privatrecht , Böhlau, Vienna 1981 (9th edition 2001) (Böhlau-Studien-Bücher) ISBN 3-205-07171-9 , p. 373 f.

[Selb-1] A ^b Herbert Hausmaninger , Walter Selb : Römisches Privatrecht , Böhlau, Vienna 1981 (9th edition 2001) (Böhlau-Studien-Bücher) ISBN 3-205-07171-9 , p. 373 f.