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Jus Scriptum

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In Roman Law. Written law.

Inst. 1. 2, 3.

All law that was actually committed 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.

Civ. Law, p.

125, § 113.

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.

Jus scriptum is used in Fleta to denote the civil law, as distinguished from the- common law of England.

Liber 6, c. 1, § 1.