Presbyters Uniwersytet Warszawski
ID
ER 622
The law issued by King Reccesvinth (ca 649-672) forbids to appropriate stray animals without giving notice to the priest or other local authorities. The codification is known as the Lex Visigothorum (issued and revised several times between 569 and 702).
VIII.5.6
 
VI. FLAVIUS GLORIOSUS RECCESSVINDUS REX.
 
Ut pro inventis animalibus erroneis publice denuntietur.
 
Caballos vel animalia errantia liceat occupare, ita ut qui invenerit denuntiet aut sacerdoti aut comiti aut iudici aut senioribus loci aut etiam in conventu publico vicinorum. Quod si non denuntiaverit, furis damnum habebit. Similis et de aliis rebus ordo manebit.
 
(ed. Zeumer 1902: 347-348)
VIII.5.6
 
VI. GLORIOUS KING FLAVIUS RECCESVINTH KING.
 
Public notice shall be given of strays by him who finds them.
 
It shall be lawful to take up horses, or any other animals, that have strayed; but he who does so, must immediately give notice of the fact to the priest, the governor, the judge, the other authorities of the district, or to a public assembly of the neighbours. If said party should not give such notice, he shall incur the penalty for theft. A similar rule shall apply to other property taken up under the same circumstances.
 
(trans. S.P. Scott 1910: 301; lightly adapted)
 
 

Place of event:

Region
  • Iberian Peninsula

About the source:

Title: Lex Visigothorum, Liber iudiciorum, Liber iudiciorum sive Lex Visigothorum
Origin: Toledo (Iberian Peninsula)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
Lex Visigothorum is a codification of law first composed during the reign of King Leovigild (569-586) on the basis of the Code of Euric, but the origin of all extant manuscripts is its revised version from the reign of King Recceswinth (649-672). The codification was also enlarged in the times of King Ervig (680-687) and Ecgica (687-702).
Edition:
K. Zeumer ed., Liber iudiciorum sive lex Visigothorum, Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Leges nationum Germanicarum 1, Hannover, Leipzig 1902, 33-456.
 
Translation:
The Visigothic Code (Forum Judicum), trans. S.P. Scott, Boston 1910
Bibliography:
K. Schäferdiek, Die Kirche in den Reichen der Westgoten und Suewen bis zur Errichtung der westgotischen katholischen Staatskirche, Berlin 1967.

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Described by a title - Sacerdos/ἱερεύς
    Public law - Secular
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