An Unpunished Crime? Familial Theft in Paris’ Parliamentary Law in the Eighteenth Century
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If the criminal repression of theft increases all over Europe after 1750, intra-family theft is extremely rare in the criminal court of the Paris parliament (1694-1775). This article focuses on this phenomenon and tries to explain the reason why conjugal or parental thefts are not pursued in main title. They constitute an aggravating circumstance of violence (adultery, assaults, manslaughters). Before its legal recognition in the penal Code of 1810, the rule of family immunity seems to be empirically elaborated in the French monarchy’s highest criminal court.
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