Salian Franks
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Confederation of Germanic tribes governed by the Salic Law and its Hundred Court.
This Court of the Hundred, which administered the Salic law to the Salian Franks, was the most ancient of the organised Courts among the Germanic races.
It is concerned with the daily life of the men who belonged to the confederation of German tribes called (it is not altogether known why) the Salian Franks.
but it was matter of dispute whether they proved anything more than that the Frankish code-maker had heard something of the Roman ‘legal order.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The Frankish people whose Salic Law provisions on distraint are analyzed in detail.
In the state of Teutonic law represented by the Frankish Code, we find a specific class of cases tried throughout judicially (in our modern sense of the word) from the initial stage to the judgment;
But the Salic law, which the most learned Germans now believe to have been drawn up at some period between the time at which Tacitus wrote and the time at which the Franks broke into the Empire, contains a series of very peculiar and instructive provisions on the subject, which have been for the first time fully interpreted by Sohm.
They did not, therefore, supersede distress by a wholly new system, but engrafted it on a later procedure, which occasionally took the form so curiously preserved in its main features to our own day by the English Common law, but which at a relatively later date and more generally may be believed to have shaped itself on the model of the rules observed by the Salian Franks.