The legal system of the Visigothic Kingdom was significantly indebted to Roman law, and for a long time it preserved the Late Roman capital penalties of death and deportation. Yet, Ervig’s reign appears to be marked by a turning point, at the end of the seventh century: his laws ended the coexistence of both penalties in the Visigothic penal system, leaving exile as the only punishment incurred by political and religious offenders. Such a reform needs to be carefully weighed: was it a real break with prior penal practice? Can it be interpreted as a Christian reform of the civil law? And what about the seemingly increasing confusion between exile and servitude?