Abstract

Abstract The vocabulary of public deviance worked simultaneously on two different levels : that of legal accuracy (concussion, péculat, exaction), which made it possible to isolate the corresponding practices and to qualify them as crimes ; and that of inclusion within general categories such as abus, lèse-majesté or malversation, which had a strong political or moral dimension. The study of the word "corruption " in the second part of the work shows that it had moral meaning inherited from the Aristotelian tradition. 'Corruption,' with its moral overtones, was initially unrelated to the penal question of public deviance. Rather, it marked the fundamental discrepancy between man and the virtue of justice.

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