In Roman law.
Written law. Inst. 1, 2, 3. All law that was actually committed to writing, whether it had originated by enactment or by custom, in contradistinction to such parts of the law of custom as were not committed to writing. Mackeld. Rom. Law,126.
In English law. Written law, or statute law, otherwise called “lex scripta” as distinguished from the common law, “lex non, script a” 1 Bl. Comm., 62.