Note 44 — BOOK VIII. CONCERNING ACTS OF VIOLENCE AND INJURIES.

The reader cannot have failed to remark the striking analogy existing between the laws of the Forum Judicum relating to strays, and our own statutory enactments on the same subject. Indeed, aside from some of the penalties imposed, and the amount of compensation allowed, the regulations are, in many instances, almost identical. Unlike a great part of the Visigothic legislation, where trespass, and other violations of the law of real property are involved, few of the provisions concerning strays are derived from Roman sources. Most of them are unquestionably survivals of the ancient legal traditions of the wandering Gothic tribes, the great bulk of whose wealth consisted of flocks and herds of sheep and cattle.—[Ed.]