lex scripta

Lex Scripta account of the plots

Emperor Justinian divides the lex scripta into several categories:

Lex scripta pl.

Lex Scripta on the Bye and Main plots

The Lex Scripta of the Isle of Man.

In English law, written law, or statute law, otherwise called "lex scripta," as distinguished from the common law, "lex non scripta."

1977, "Lex scripta and verbum regis: legislation and Germanic kingship from Euric to Cnut" in Sawyer, P.H. & Wood, Ian N. (eds), Early medieval kingship.

Lex scripta has a lasting effect that can define a legal tradition for a culture such as that found in the Corpus Juris Civilis, Magna Carta, Tang Code, or a country's constitution.

He seemed to receive Hermann's amicable letter as a matter of course, and after a few words of general conversation, went to an inner room and brought out the everlasting treatise "Duelli Lex scripta, et non; aliterque."

But he requested my attention particularly, and with an air of mysterious sagacity, to a thick octavo, written in barbarous Latin by one Hedelin, a Frenchman, and having the quaint title, "Duelli Lex Scripta, et non; aliterque."

It is a term that embraces all the laws which do not come under the definition of written law or "lex scripta" and it is composed, principally, of the law of nature, the law of nations, the common law, and customs.