Salic Law
Salian Frankish lawmakers
cited 2 times by 2 works in the library · not held
also in the atlas: Salic Law the object
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom Henry Sumner Maine 1 citation · 3 passages
The Salic Law is repeatedly invoked as the primary documentary authority underlying the argument about Germanic kingship and justice.
This is the Salic Law, the oldest of the Teutonic codes, the oldest portrait of Germanic institutions drawn by a German.
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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions Henry Sumner Maine 1 citation · 3 passages
Extensively analyzed as the key Continental Teutonic parallel to English distress.
Nor can he proceed to seizure until he has summoned this person before the Popular Court, and until the Popular Officer of the Court, the Thunginus, has pronounced a formula licensing distraint.
ch. 10 ¶
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