DELIMITATION OF INTENTIONAL AND NEGLIGENT FORMS OF GUILT AND GUILTLESS HARM IN THE LAW OF ANCIENT STATES
The article studies a process of delimitation of criminal guilty acts, including intentional and negligent ones, and acts formally falling under characteristics of a criminal assault, but not recognized as criminal due to certain conditions. Basing on an analysis of legal sources of some states of the ancient world the author investigated the first attempts of legislator to distinguish between two forms of guilt - intent and negligence in the commission of offenses. The author has identified a certain historical continuity in development of such criminal law institutions as guiltless harm (incident) as well as circumstances that exclude the criminality of an act, in their modern understanding.