Code of Leovigild
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The Code of Leovigild or Codex Revisus was a Visigothic legal code, a revision of the Codex Euricianus made in the late sixth century under Leovigild (568–586).[1][2] The code does not survive and all we know of it is derived from the writings of Isidore of Seville, a near contemporary ecclesiastic and encyclopaedist.[citation needed] Nevertheless, it was the Gothic basis of the later Liber Iudiciorum, an Hispanian law code which united it with the law code of the Hispano-Roman population, the Breviary of Alaric.[citation needed]
In 1974, García Gallo made a critical examination of the evidence for the code and came to reject the claim of Isidore that Leovigild had formulated a new code, since the laws of Chindasuinth dictated modifications to laws more ancient the reign of Leovigild.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Liuvigild, King of the Visigoths". British Museum. Retrieved 2026-08-07.
- ↑ de Dios Marcer, Josep Maria; Cañabate Pérez, Josep (2023), Koch, Sören; Kjølstad, Marius Mikkel (eds.), "An Introduction to Spanish Legal Culture", Handbook on Legal Cultures: A Selection of the World's Legal Cultures, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 961–1008, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-27745-0_23, retrieved 2026-08-07
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