Note 11 — BOOK II. CONCERNING THE CONDUCT OF CAUSES.
S. P. (Samuel Parsons) Scott translation
Branding was a penalty rarely imposed under the Visigothic system, and was deemed especially infamous on account of it being reserved for crimes involving unusual turpitude. He who was “notatus infamia” was deeply burned upon the forehead with a red-hot iron, which left an ineffaceable scar. Few offences were more detested by the Visigoths than perjury.—[Ed.]