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Lex Scripta definition:
Written law; statutes.
Related Terms: Statutes, Law, Lex Non Scripta
In legal history, the term was prevalent as distinguished from lex non scripta, also and more commonly now known as the common law.
Ita lex scripta est. The law is so written. The law, as enacted, must be applied. Lex domicilli. The law of the place of domicil. Lex fori. The law of the forum: the place where a remedy is sought. Lex loci. The law of the place.
Blackstone divides the civil law of England into lex scripta or statute law, and lex non scripta or common law.
Into written law, lex scripta; and unwritten law, lex non scripta. Into law merchant, martial law, municipal law and foreign law. When considered as to their duration, laws are immutable and arbitrary or positive.
LAW, WRITTEN, or lex scripta. This consists of the constitution of the United States the constitutions of the several states the acts of the different legislatures, as the acts of congress, and of the legislatures of the several states, ...
 See also: Civil, Law, Were, Statute, Lawyer
  
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