Manifest and Non-Manifest Theft
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in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
The division of theft into manifest (detected in the act, or under various extended tests) and non-manifest, with jurists disagreeing on the precise limits of manifestness.
Manifestum furtum quidam id esse dixerunt, quod dum fit deprehenditur.
What is not manifest theft will be understood from what we have said about manifest theft, for what is not the one is the other.
Nec manifestum furtum quid sit, ex iis quae diximus intellegitur.
Ancient Law
Roman legal distinction between thieves caught in the act and those detected later, carrying different penalties.
The Laws of the Twelve Tables seem to have divided Thefts into Manifest and Non-Manifest, and to have allotted extraordinarily different penalties to the offence according as it fell under one head or the other.