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Roman
law
did
not
recognise
the
concept
of
a
continuous
offence
.
It
was
only
during
the
Middle
Ages
that
scholars
like
Bartolus
de
Saxoferrato[2
]
,
Baldus
de
Ubaldis[3
]
and
Prosperus
Farinacius[4
]
introduced
the
concept
with
the
purpose
of
softening
the
hard
sentencing
rule
of
strict
accumulation
of
penalties
or
consecutive
sentences
(
quod
criminae
tot
poenae
)
under
Roman
law[5
]
.
According
to
these
scholars
,
there
were
two
major
criteria
for
the
punishment
of
a
succession
of
individual
criminal
acts
as
a
continuous
offence
:
a
short
period
of
time
between
the
different
individual
criminal
acts
committed
by
the
offender
(
cum
temporis
intervallo
,
as
Baldus
said
)
and
the
existence
of
a
single
intention
or
purpose
underlying
those
individual
acts
(
ad
eundem
finem
,
as
Bartolus
put
it
)
.
In
fact
,
the
close
temporal
connection
between
the
individual
acts
was
considered
as
evidence
of
that
same
intention
.
A
continuous
offence
was
a
group
of
individual
acts
united
by
the
same
intention
and
the
same
criminal
purpose
,
and
committed
within
a
short
period
of
time
,
which
was
punishable
by
a
single
prison
term[6
]
.
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