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dc.contributor.authorBrown, Jonathanen_UK
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-30T01:00:23Z-
dc.date.available2022-11-30T01:00:23Z-
dc.date.issued2018-09en_UK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/34692-
dc.description.abstractViolation of sepulchres is a common law crime in Scotland. This crime ensures that interred human corpses are not subject to the ordinary laws of property, but are instead protected under this distinct heading of law. While it now appears settled that a corpse can be stolen prior to interment, it remains unclear if a corpse which was once buried, but has since been lawfully removed from its grave, remains incapable of being stolen, or if it becomes susceptible to theft again when exhumed. This article suggests that the latter occurs in Scots law since a res religiosa – an object not subject to the ordinary rules of property – is created when the body is placed in its grave. This suggestion draws on the connection between the contemporary crime of violation of sepulchres and its Roman ancestor, the crimen violati sepulcri. The article suggests that though the overtly religious overtones of the term 'res religiosa' appears to be at odds with an increasingly secularised society, the law surrounding res religiosae functionally explains the absence of 'property' in buried bodies, thus providing a logical basis for the proposition that an unburied body may be stolen, but a buried body may not be.en_UK
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherEdinburgh University Pressen_UK
dc.relationBrown J (2018) Res Religiosae and the Roman Roots of the Crime of Violation of Sepulchres. <i>Edinburgh Law Review</i>, 22 (3), pp. 347-367. https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2018.0503en_UK
dc.rightsThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in Edinburgh Law Review. The Version of Record is available online at: http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/elr.2018.0503en_UK
dc.rights.urihttps://storre.stir.ac.uk/STORREEndUserLicence.pdfen_UK
dc.subjectScots Lawen_UK
dc.subjectViolation of Sepulchresen_UK
dc.subjectTheften_UK
dc.subjectCorpsesen_UK
dc.subjectPropertyen_UK
dc.subjectGravesen_UK
dc.titleRes Religiosae and the Roman Roots of the Crime of Violation of Sepulchresen_UK
dc.typeJournal Articleen_UK
dc.identifier.doi10.3366/elr.2018.0503en_UK
dc.citation.jtitleEdinburgh Law Reviewen_UK
dc.citation.issn1755-1692en_UK
dc.citation.issn1364-9809en_UK
dc.citation.volume22en_UK
dc.citation.issue3en_UK
dc.citation.spage347en_UK
dc.citation.epage367en_UK
dc.citation.publicationstatusPublisheden_UK
dc.citation.peerreviewedRefereeden_UK
dc.type.statusAM - Accepted Manuscripten_UK
dc.author.emailjonathan.brown@stir.ac.uken_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationRobert Gordon Universityen_UK
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000444774200002en_UK
dc.identifier.scopusid2-s2.0-85069053350en_UK
dc.identifier.wtid1835021en_UK
dc.date.accepted2018-04-01en_UK
dcterms.dateAccepted2018-04-01en_UK
dc.date.filedepositdate2022-09-12en_UK
rioxxterms.apcnot requireden_UK
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_UK
rioxxterms.versionAMen_UK
local.rioxx.authorBrown, Jonathan|en_UK
local.rioxx.projectInternal Project|University of Stirling|https://isni.org/isni/0000000122484331en_UK
local.rioxx.freetoreaddate2022-11-17en_UK
local.rioxx.licencehttps://storre.stir.ac.uk/STORREEndUserLicence.pdf|2022-11-17|en_UK
local.rioxx.filenameBrown_ELR_2018.pdfen_UK
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local.rioxx.source1755-1692en_UK
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