75. See the Burgundian laws (tit. ii. in tom. iv. p. 257),
the code of the Visigoths (1. vi. tit. v. in tom. iv. p.
383,), and the constitution of 'Childebert', not of Paris,
but most evidently of Austrasia (in tom. iv. p. 112). Their
prernature severity was sometimes rash and excessive.
Childebert condemned not only murderers but robbers; quomodo
sine lege involavit, sine lege moriatur; and even the
negligent judge was involved in the same sentence. The
Visigoths abandoned an unsuccessful surgeon to the family of
his deceased patient, ut quod de eo facere voluerint habeant
potestatem (l. xi. tit. i. in tom. iv. p. 435).