125. The Code of the Visigoths, regularly divided into
twelve books, has been correctly published by Dom Bouquet
(in tom. iv. p. 283-460). It has been treated by the
President De Montesquieu (The Spirit of Laws, l. xxviii. c.
1 ) with excessive severity. I dislike the style; I detest
the superstition; but I shall presume to think that the
civil jurisprudence displays a more civilised and
enlightened state of society than that of the Burgundians or
even of the Lombards.