LEX VISIGOTHORUM

lex Visigothorum (leks viz-<<schwa>>-gah-thor-<<schwa>>m). [Latin “law of the Visigoths”] The law of a division of the Goths (a Germanic tribe) known as the Visigoths, who conquered Spain in the 5th century. • In the late 7th century, Kings Recceswinth and Erwig imposed a Visigothic common law, and it is to this law that the phrase lex Visigothorum usu. applies. — Also spelled lex Wisigothorum. — Also termed liber iudiciorum.

[Blacks Law 8th]