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Henry de Bracton’s (#Bracton) compilation of the English (Canon) Law on #SUICIDE, in the original Latin and modern English. Bracton was a 13th century English Catholic Archdeacon, itinerant judge and legal commentator. His opus magnum, “De Legibus Et Consuetudinibus (1/26)
Anglilae”, is often cited by conservatives as representative of the origins of British and English common law. As you shall see, here, below, the work (and the contemporaneous law) was heavily influenced by Bracton’s Catholic faith. YOU be the judge of that!
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The comments interposed by the editor, Woodbine, are indicated in {}. Note that Latin makes heavy use of the “subjunctive”, something long since disused in English and difficult to properly translate, other than in the third person: If the translation reads somewhat (3/26)
