Written Law
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
One of the two leading divisions of the Roman law, comprising the leges, plebiscita, senatus consulta, prindpum placita, magistratuum edicta, and responsa prudentum.
Inst. 1. 2. 3.
Statute law; law deriving its force from express legislative enactment.
1 Rl. Comm. 62, 85.