Without Address. Concerning
Raptus. On this
subject see before Letters cxcix. and ccxvii. pp. 238 and
256. See Preb. Meyrick in D.C.A. ii. 1102:
“It means not exactly the same as our word ravishment, but the
violent removal of a woman to a place where her actions are no
longer free, for the sake of inducing her or compelling her to
marry.…By some raptus is distinguished into the two
classes of raptus seductionis and raptus
violentiæ.” cf. Cod.
Theod. ix. tit. xxiv. legg. 1, 2, and Cod.
Justin. ix.–xiii. leg. 1 Corp.
Juris. ii. 832.