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Jus Scriptum

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In Roman law. Written law.

Inst. 1, 2, 3.

An law that was actually committed to writing, whether it had originated by enactment or by custom, in contradistinction to such parte 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 "lex scripta," as distinguished from the common law, "lex non scripta."

1 Bl. Comm. 62.