The evolution of the legal sanction in some ancient state entities

Abstract

The concept study of the legal sanction necessarily implies historical vision, linked to decipher its origins. In accepting the thesis, according to which the right can express only the social needs of a community established in the political form, there is no doubt that the right appears in social historical conditions characterized by differences, specific for a political society. The ancient works and subsequently those developed in the Middle Ages did not set any distinction between the concept of punishment and that of sanction, the latter intervening only in modern times as a variant of the punishment. At first, the two concepts were confused; there were only small differences in the quality between several types of punishments. From this perspective, our analysis is based on the "sanctions" imposed on the society, following a brief overview of the primitive society, the tribe, till the ancient Greek society, which was considered more advanced.