“Here is another snippet on that vexed question: how did medieval law regard the foetus (something I have blogged about a bit. Much of the attention in this regard – including mine – has been on the law of homicide. That’s understandable, since we tend to think of the big question being ‘was it regarded as homicide, to end the life of a foetus?’. But here, in KB 27/590 m 15d, is a Cornish case in which the aim is not to convict a person who had caused foetal death, but to obtain compensation for a ‘tort’ …” (more)
[Gwen Seabourne, Bracton’s Sister, 28 May]
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