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Michael Heseltine (Editor)

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Isidorus Origines V, 26, 7: Dolus¹ is the mental cunning on the part of the deceiver: for he does one thing and pretends another. Petronius takes a different view when he says,

What is a wrong (dolus), gentlemen? It occurs whenever anything offensive to the law is done. You understand what a wrong is: now take damage. . .

phi0972.phi001f. Petronius. Michael Heseltine (Editor). London. 1913.

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1. Dolus originally meant a device without moral connotation; hence the legal term for fraud was dolus malus, and the use of dolus alone in a bad sense is later.

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