CRIMES AGAINST PERSON VIEWED UNDER THE LIGHT OF THE CANON OF LABERIA

Abstract

In evidence of such ancient legal-criminal tradition, special attention should be paid to the Albanian canons. This paper aims to analyze crimes committed against person and their importance in the Canon of Laberia. In particular, this paper will shed the well-deserved light to the criminal norms and rules against individuals, as given in the Canon of Laberia, its provisions to the offenders, their responsibility, as well as types of punitive measures taken for committing offenses against individuals and the basis for their criminal liability. Furthermore, particular attention will be given to the meaning of murder, with an analytical view that grounds on the type of murder, such as blood feud and revenge, murder for interest, murder within the family, murder of the guest, murder of the shepherd etc., as foreseen in the Canon of Laberia and the relevant punitive measures taken on each crime.