A leaf of the Äldre Västgötalagen from the late 1200s
The Westgeatish law (Swedish: Västgötalagen) is the oldest Swedish writ written in the Latin writing and the oldest of the Swedish shirelaws. The writ was written sometime in the early 1200s and was the folklaw brooked in Westgeatland throughout the latter half of the 1200s. The oldest whole writ is put to about 1281. Smaller bits of an older writ are thought to be from about 1250.
The law writ is in two kinds, the Äldre Västgötalagen and the Yngre Västgötalagen (Older and Younger Westgeatish law, in the same batch). The first thrutching in newer times was by Hans Samuel Collin and Carl Johan Schylter in 1827. A new thrutching by Gösta Holm was put out in 1976.