The Visigothic code

BOOK XI.

Chapter 11213 wordsPublic domain

CONCERNING THE SICK AND THE DEAD, AND MERCHANTS WHO COME FROM BEYOND SEAS.

TITLE I.--_Concerning Physicians and Sick Persons._

I. No Physician shall Presume to Bleed a Woman, in the Absence of her Relatives 353

II. No Physician shall Visit Persons Confined in Prison 354

III. Where a Physician Treats Disease under a Contract 354

IV. Where a Sick Person Dies, while a Physician is Treating him under a Contract 355

V. Where a Physician Removes a Cataract from the Eye 355

VI. Where a Freeman or a Slave Dies from Being Bled 355

VII. Concerning the Compensation to be Received for the Instruction of a Student in Medicine 355

VIII. No Physician shall be Imprisoned without a Hearing 355

TITLE II.--_Concerning Those who Disturb Sepulchres._

I. Concerning Persons who Deface or Injure Tombs 356

II. Where a Coffin is Removed from a Grave 356

TITLE III.--_Concerning Merchants who Come from Beyond Seas._

I. Where Foreign Merchants are Detected Selling Stolen Property 357

II. Foreign Merchants shall be Judged by their own Magistrates, and According to their own Laws 357

III. Where a Foreign Merchant Carries Away with him, from our Kingdom, a Person whom he has Hired 358

IV. Where a Foreign Merchant takes Away a Slave for Purposes of Commerce 358