THE
VISIGOTHIC CODE
(FORUM JUDICUM)

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL LATIN, AND EDITED BY

S. P. SCOTT

Author of “Through Spain” “History of the Moorish Empire in Europe”
Member of the Comparative Law Bureau of the American Bar Association

Lex est magistra vitæ

I-II-2

BOSTON
THE BOSTON BOOK COMPANY
1910

Copyright 1910

BY THE COMPARATIVE LAW BUREAU OF THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION

The Riverdale Press, Brookline, Boston, Mass.

TO

MY FELLOW MEMBERS

OF THE COMPARATIVE LAW BUREAU

IN THE HOPE THAT IT MAY PROVE AN ACCEPTABLE CONTRIBUTION

TO THE LITERATURE OF THE NOBLE SCIENCE OF THE LAW

THIS TRANSLATION

OF ONE OF THE MOST VENERABLE MONUMENTS OF JURISPRUDENCE

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