Lombards
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Lombardic law
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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Germanic people whose law permits distress after simple demand.
and, at the other end of the scale, the Lombardic law has a trace of that licence of distress which has survived in the English Common-law and permits it after simple demand of payment.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Germanic people named alongside the Franks and Saxons as jealous of judicial authority.
“The Franks, Lombards, and Saxons seem alike to have been jealous of judicial authority;