TITLE III. CONCERNING ABORTION.

I.Concerning Those who Administer Drugs for the Production of Abortion.
II.Where a Freeborn Man Causes a Freeborn Woman to Abort.
III.Where a Freeborn Woman Causes another Freeborn Woman to Abort.
IV.Where a Freeborn Man Produces Abortion upon a Slave.
V.Where a Slave Produces Abortion upon a Freeborn Woman.
VI.Where a Slave Produces Abortion upon a Female Slave.
VII.Concerning Those who Kill their Children before, or after, they are Born.

ANCIENT LAW.

I. Concerning Those who Administer Drugs for the Production of Abortion.

If anyone should administer a potion to a pregnant woman to produce abortion, and the child should die in consequence, the woman who took such a potion, if she is a slave, shall receive two hundred lashes, and if she is freeborn, she shall lose her rank, and shall be given as a slave to whomever we may select.

ANCIENT LAW.

II. Where a Freeborn Man Causes a Freeborn Woman to Abort.

If anyone should cause a freeborn woman to abort by a blow, or by any other means, and she should die from the injury, he shall be punished for homicide. But if only an abortion should be produced in consequence, and the woman should be in no wise injured; where a freeman is known to have committed this act upon a freewoman, and the child should be fully formed, he shall pay two hundred solidi; otherwise, he shall pay a hundred solidi, by way of satisfaction.

ANCIENT LAW.

III. Where a Freeborn Woman Causes another Freeborn Woman to Abort.