{"id":8867,"date":"2017-11-21T01:21:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T01:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=8867"},"modified":"2018-01-01T23:20:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T23:20:09","slug":"law-of-the-visigoths","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=8867","title":{"rendered":"Law of the Visigoths – early 6th century code of Roman law applied to Hispano-Roman and Gallo-Roman peoples ruled by the Germanic Visigoths"},"content":{"rendered":"

lex Visigothorum<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong>
\n(leks viza gah-thoram)
\n[Latin \u201claw of the Visigoths\u2019 ]
\n(1846)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. An early 6th century code of Roman law that applied to Hispano-Roman and Gallo-Roman peoples ruled by the Visigoths, a German tribe that conquered Spain in the 5th century.\u00a0 *\u00a0 Its primary source is the Breviary of Alaric, prepared for Alaric ll, the Visigoth king who ordered Roman law collected into this code.\u00a0 In the late 7th century, Kings Recceswinth and Erwig imposed a Visigothic common law, an<\/strong>d it is to this law that the phrase lex Visigothorum usually applies.<\/strong> \u2014 Also spelled lex Wisigothorum<\/strong><\/em><\/span>. \u2014 Sometimes written lex Romana Wisigothorum<\/span><\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 \u2014 aka lex Romana Visigothorum<\/strong><\/em><\/span>; liber judiciorum<\/strong><\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 See BREVIARIUM ALARI<\/span><\/span>CIANUM.<\/span><\/p>\n

Breviarium Alaricianum<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span>
\n(bree-vee-air-ee-am al-a-ri-kayv nam)
\n[Latin]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. An abridgment (or breviary) of Roman law compiled by order of the Visigoth king Alaric II, published for the use of his Roman subjects in the year 506.\u00a0 *\u00a0 Revised versions were known as the Lex Romana Visigothorum.\u00a0 It was also termed Breviarium Aniani<\/em> after Alaric\u2019s chancellor, Anian, who edited and distributed the\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>work. <\/strong>\u2014 aka Breviary of Alaric<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span>. [1]<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Excerpt from David M. Walker’s\u00a0The Oxford Companion to Law<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(1980):<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThough the Breviarium was later replaced by the Lex Visigothorum in the Visigothic kingdom, it continued in use in southern France and Lombardy, which had meantime passed under the dominion of the Franks. Its qualities made the Breviarium a book of high authority throughout the whole of western Europe during the Middle Ages and it was one of the main channels through which Roman law entered western European law prior to the Reception.<\/span>\u201d<\/strong> [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

Other Barbarian Law Systems<\/a>:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Salic Law<\/span><\/a> – principal compilation of early Germanic law developed by Salian Franks.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Law of the Burgundians<\/a> <\/span>\u2013 the law of the (Germanic) Burgundians, first published\u00a0about AD. 495.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]: Black’s Law Dictionary <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Deluxe Tenth Edition<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> by Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0[2]:\u00a0David M. Walker, The Oxford Companion to Law<\/em><\/a> 151-52 (1980).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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