Author/Editor     Dolenc, Anton
Title     CCT: instructiones (navodila): ad articulum XXVI
Translated title     CCT: instructiones (instructions): ad articulum XXVI
Type     članek
Source     In: Balažic J, Štefanič B, editors. Ocenjevanje telesnih poškodb. Medicinsko izvedenstvo 96. 2. memorialni sestanek akademika Janeza Milčinskega; 1996 dec 3-4; Ljubljana. Ljubljana: Medicinska fakulteta, Inštitut za sodno medicino,
Publication year     1996
Volume     str. 157-66
Language     slo
Abstract     The CCT (Vienna 1769) centrally regulated the role and meaning of medical experts in the courts, which is certainly of interest and worth copying even today. The Constution includes special instructions regarding Article 26, which state in detail the actions of an expert in assessing physical injuries. For murder, there are four points stating what questions the expert should answer, and there are also detailed legal provisions for poisoning and infanticide. The instructions are so complete that they are still useful for assesssing physical injuries or for cases of infanticide today. The expert had to determine the nature of the injury and its location, and had to classify them as minor, serious or fatal, with regard to the degree of danger they represented. Fatal injuries were divided into imminent fatal wounds, wounds where appropriate aid and instruments could prevent death, and those which become deadly if either patient or healer acts incorrectly. The instructions include a detailed description of which group the expert should classify wounds or injuries into. Thus a physician had at his disposal quite a detailed document which constantly reminded him of how to act in order to comply with the demands of justice and Theresian law.
Descriptors     EXPERT TESTIMONY
FORENSIC MEDICINE
CRIMINAL LAW
AUSTRIA