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The Visigothic Code: (Forum judicum)

ed. S. P. Scott



Book XI: Concerning the Sick and the Dead and Merchants who Come from Beyond

Title I: Concerning Physicians and Sick Persons

Law I: No Physician shall Presume to Bleed a Woman, in the Absence of her Relatives.
Law II: No Physician shall Visit Persons Confined in Prison.
Law III: Where a Physician Treats Disease under a Contract.
Law IV: Where a Sick Person Dies, while a Physician is Treating him under a Contract.
Law V: Where a Physician Removes a Cataract from the Eye.
Law VI: Where a Freeman or a Slave Dies from Being Bled.
Law VII: Concerning the Compensation to be Received for the Instruction of a Student in Medicine.
Law VIII: No Physician shall be Imprisoned without a Hearing.

Title II: Concerning Those who Disturb Sepulchres

Law I: Concerning Persons who Deface or Injure Tombs.
Law II: Where a Coffin is Removed from a Grave.

Title III: Concerning Merchants who Come from Beyond Seas

Law I: Where Foreign Merchants are Detected Selling Stolen Property.
Law II: Foreign Merchants shall be Judged by their own Magistrates, and according to their own Laws.
Law III: Where a Foreign Merchant Carries Away with him, from our Kingdom, a Person whom he has Hired.
Law IV: Where a Foreign Merchant takes away a slave for Purposes of Commerce.