Brevia Testata
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
See "Breve Testatum." BREVIARIUM ALARICIANUM (or ANIAn!) (Lat.) A code of law compiled by order of Alaric II., king of the Visigoths, for the use of the Romans, living in his empire, published A. D. 506. It was collected by a committee of sixteen Roman lawyers, from the Codex Gregorianus, Hermogenianus, and Theodosianus, some of the later novels, and the writings of Gains, Paulus, and Papinianus. In the middle ages, it is commonly referred to, under the titles Corpus Theodosianum, Lex Theodosiana, Liber Legum, or Lex Romana.
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Civ. Law, p.
49, § 59.