The Visigothic Code: (Forum judicum)

ed. S. P. Scott

Title I: Concerning Informers of Theft

Law I: Concerning Informers and Persons who give Information of Theft.
Law II: A Slave, Acting as Informer, must not be Believed, unless the Testimony of his Master is also Given.
Law III: Where the Informer Knew of the Commission of the Theft.
Law IV: Concerning the Compensation of an Informer.
Law V: Where an Innocent Person is Accused of Crime by an Informer.

Title II: Concerning Thieves and Stolen Property

Law I: He who is Searching for Stolen Property must Describe it.
Law II: Where a Slave Commits a Theft Before, or After, he has Received his Freedom.
Law III: Where a Slave who has Become the Property of Another Master, Commits an Unlawful Act.
Law IV: Where a Freeman Commits a Theft in Company with the Slave of Another Person.
Law V: Where a Master Commits a Theft in Company with his Slave.
Law VI: Where a Slave, Belonging In Another Person, is Instigated by Anyone to the Commission of Unlawful Acts.
Law VII: Concerning Those who Knowingly Associate with Thieves.
Law VIII: Where Anyone, Ignorantly, Buys Stolen Property of a Thief.
Law IX: Where Anyone, Knowingly, Buys Stolen Property of a Thief.
Law X: Concerning Money, and Other Property, Stolen from the King.
Law XI: Concerning the Stealing of Bells from Cattle.
Law XII: Concerning the Theft of Mill Machinery.
Law XIII: Concerning the Punishment of a Thief.
Law XIV: A Thief, when Taken, shall be Brought Before the Judge; and Where a Freeman Commits a Theft in Company with a Slave, Both shall Undergo the Same Penalty.
Law XV: Where a Thief, Defending Himself with a Sword, is Killed.
Law XVI: Where a Thief is Killed at Night, while he is Being Taken.
Law XVII: Concerning Property Injured or Destroyed, and the Reparation to be Made for what has been Damaged or Stolen.
Law XVIII: Concerning Property Rescued from Shipwreck.
Law XIX: Concerning the Property and the Heirs of Thieves.
Law XX: Concerning Those who Rescue Thieves and Other Criminals, after their Capture.
Law XXI: Where a Slave Steals from his Master, or from a Fellow-Slave.
Law XXII: Within what Time, after his Arrest, a Thief must be Brought Before the Judge.
Law XXIII: Where Anyone Secretly Kills an Animal Belonging to Another.

Title III: Concerning Appropriators and Kidnappers of Slaves

Law I: Where Anyone Seizes the Slave of Another.
Law II: Where a Freeman is Convicted of Having Stolen the Male or Female Slave of Another.
Law III: Concerning Kidnapped Children of Freeborn Persons.
Law IV: Where one Slave Kidnaps Another Belonging to a Person not his Master.
Law V: Where a Slave, at the Command of his Master, Kidnaps a Freeborn Person.
Law VI: Where a Slave, without the Knowledge of his Master, Kidnaps a Freeborn Person.

Title IV: Concerning Forgers of Documents

Law I: Where a Judge is asked to Punish Crime, and is afterwards Treated with Contempt.
Law II: The Governor of the City shall Aid the Judge in the Arrest of Persons Accused of Crime.
Law III: Where a Person Breaks out of Prison, or Influences the Jailer for that Purpose.
Law IV: Concerning the Compensation which may be Received from those in Custody.
Law V: Where a Judge who is Lenient to Offenders against the Law, Releases a Criminal.
Law VI: Concerning the Punishment of a Judge who Improperly Discharges a Criminal.
Law VII: A Person Guilty of Crime shall Receive the Sentence of the Law not Secretly, but in Public.

Title V: Concerning Forgers of Documents

Law I: Concerning those who Forge Royal Orders and Mandates.
Law II: Concerning those who Forge Documents, or Attempt to Forge Them.
Law III: Concerning those who Forge, or Serve, False Orders in the Name of the King, or Judge.
Law IV: Concerning those who Falsify a Will against the Consent of a Party while Living, or Disclose Contents of the Same.
Law V: Concerning those who Attempt to Forge or Conceal the Will of a Person Already Deceased.
Law VI: Where Anyone Assumes a Fictitious Name, or Adopts a False Lineage or Relationship.
Law VII: Concerning Documents Fraudulently Dated, Prior to their Execution.
Law VIII: Concerning Later Documents Fraudulently Executed.
Law IX: Concerning those who Falsely Write, or Publish, Decrees and Edicts of the King.

Title VI: Concerning Counterfeiters of Metals

Law I:Concerning the Torture of Slaves, in Order to Convict their Masters of Counterfeiting Money; and the Reward of Witnesses who have given Information of the Same.
Law II:Concerning those who Debase Solidi, or Other Coins.
Law III:Concerning those who Debase Gold by a Mixture of Other Metals.
Law IV:Where Artificers of Metals are Found to have Abstracted a Portion, of what was Entrusted to Them.
Law V:No One shall Refuse to Accept a Golden Solidus of Legal Weight.