Lex Romana Curiensis

Page where the Lex Romana Curiensis begins in the Verona manuscript. The beginning of the text is in the middle of the right column: In nomine s[an]c[t]ae Trinitatis incipiunt capitula libri primi legis (In the name of the Holy Trinity, the chapters of the first book of the law begin...).

The Lex Romana Curiensis ("Roman Law of Chur"), also known as the Lex Romana Raetica,[a] Lex Romana Utinensis[b] or Epitome Sancti Galli,[c] is a Latin legal treatise of the eighth century from the region of Churraetia.[1] It was not a law code in force, but a handbook for use in legal education.[2] Nonetheless, it may be the basis of the Raetian lex et consuetudo (law and custom) that Charlemagne confirmed in the early 770s.[3]


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  1. ^ Floyd Seyward Lear (1929), "Crimen Laesae Maiestatis in the Lex Romana Wisigothorum", Speculum, 4(1), 73–87, at p. 77.
  2. ^ "Lex Romana Curiensis", in Bibliotheca Legum: A Database on Carolingian Secular Law Texts (Universität zu Köln). Accessed 14 December 2018.
  3. ^ Stefan Esders (2018), "Roman Law as an Identity Marker in Post-Roman Gaul (5th‒9th Centuries)", Transformations of Romanness: Early Medieval Regions and Identities (De Gruyter), pp. 325–44, at 336.