De ciertos crimina extra ordinaria: la “sollicitatio alienarum nuptiarum” y la “interpellatio matrimonii”

Abstract

It would appear that at a certain point in time, the act of persecuting another’s wife or attempting to break up her marriage was considered a crime, punishable extra ordinem. The testimony of the jurist Paulus in his Sententiae 5.4.5 and 14, branches of which have been rather neglected by the doctrine, perhaps because they belong to a work that is highly suspicious of interference, provides us with knowledge of these facts, which are added to certain other forms of behaviour already sanctioned by the praetor in his well-known edictum de adtemptata pudicitia. The aim of this work is, therefore, to study in depth the crimes punished by the praetor, concluding with a mention of the problem of attempt and its recognition by the Roman legal system.