Note 40 — BOOK VII. CONCERNING THEFT AND FRAUD.
S. P. (Samuel Parsons) Scott translation
The enforcement of the Lex Talionis in case of the kidnapping of a freeborn person indicates the abhorrence with which the crime, ever regarded by all nations as one of the most atrocious in the calendar, was viewed by the Visigoths. As slaves were valuable articles of property, the legislation of the Code was principally directed against those who stole them. The kidnapping of women, having been already provided for under the title of Rape, is, for that reason, not referred to here.—[Ed.]