Bodo writes that the Hungarian people had such a high moral standard that there was no need to mention the possibility that some “unnatural” crimes existed.
So writes an anonymous bookseller at the firm Helen R. Kahn & Associates, in their Catalog 69, about the book Jurisprudentia Criminalis Secundum Praxim & Constitutiones Hungaricas in Partes Duas Divisa. Cujus Pars Prior, Jus & Processum Criminalem, Publica Delicta & Malefactores, Modumque Contra Eos Procedendi, in Genere; Pars Posterior, Crimina Publica & Privata, Eorumque Poenam & Modum Puniendi, in Specie, Exponit, by Mathia Bodo. The description also says:
This work covers criminal and civil law as it was defined in Hungary during the 18th century, and serves as a guide to prosecutors and lawmakers. Among the common laws listed there are those against torture, witchcraft and vampirism, as well as crimes “against nature.”
