Compensation for pain, suffering and disfigurement

This brings us to the content of the Aquilian claim. The most interesting changes that occurred in this regard related to the infliction of bodily harm upon freemen. That medical expenses and loss of income could be claimed^{[5351] [5352] [5353] was never doubted.}

"Si liber homo laesus est, agitur tantum ad operas amissas,¹¹" et expensas in curationem factas, deformitatis vero ct dolorum nulla habetur ratio."¹⁹²

In the end, however, they had to resign themselves, velit nolit, to the practical realities:

. et cicatricis et doloris atque deformitatis aestimatio moribus praestanda veniat, si per laesum laesamve petita sit."¹'"

It may be noted that injury to women paved the way for this development, at least as far as compensation for disfigurement was concerned.¹⁹⁴ For whereas men do not have to care very much about their appearance (only to them should Gai. D. 9, 3, 7 therefore be taken to apply!¹⁹⁵), beauty is a matter of vital importance to women: it facilitates their prospects of marriage and, as a result, of financial security.

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