Code of Euric

Codex is a Euricianus since about 1900 common name for a late antique, led by the Visigoth king Eurich recording of Visigothic law in Latin.

Well 475 was Eurich the law of the Visigoths record. From this work, only fragments in a palimpsest manuscript of the Paris National Library (Codex Latinus Sine Pari 12161 ) are obtained; only a part of it is still readable. The Codex Euricianus centuries has been entirely lost; until the 18th century, the fragments were discovered. It is possible that at the Paris fragments to a prompted only by Euric son and successor of Alaric II processing of the Visigothic Code. Parts of the Codex Euricianus can be hypothetically inferred from later Visigothic legislation, but the attempts at reconstruction are associated with significant uncertainty.

Content

The Codex Euricianus contains, among other provisions relating to border disputes and particularly of issues that arose from the land division between sedentary Gothic conquerors and the Roman landowners, as well as provisions for loan, purchase and gift, marriage and inheritance. He is honored in the research as a major legislative achievement. The work is written in good Latin; in its drawing roman lawyers must have had a major share. At issue is the proportion of Germanic and Roman ideas of law; indisputable is that the proportion of Roman law is strikingly high. Thus, the Codex Euricianus is also a testament to the advanced Romanization of the Visigoths.

Parts of the Codex Euricianus found later, probably as a basis, in Lex Baiuvariorum, the first Bavarian Gesetzeskodifikation.

Historical legal controversy

The question of the territorial [A 1] or human [A 2 ] Validity of the Codex Euricianus is still controversial even in the current research. A concurrent validity of the Codex Euricianus and the Theodosian Code, replaced by the law adopted by Alaric II Lex Romana Visigothorum of 506, but as this is considered secured.