Jus Scriptum
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In Roman law, Written law.
Inst. 1, 2, 3.
All law that was actually commitied to writing, whether it had originated by enactment or by custom, in contradistinction to such parts of the law of custom as were not committed to writing.
Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 126.
In English law
Written law, or statute law, otherwise called “lew seripia,” as distinguished from the common law, “lex non scripta.”
1 Bl. Comm. 62.