Teutonic peoples
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Germanic peoples · Germans · Teutonic bodies · Teutonic freedmen · Teutonic host · Teutonic societies · Teutons
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Germanic peoples whose customs are argued to underlie feudal land tenure.
We see much which cannot but have contributed to it in the primitive or barbarous usages of the Aryan races re-introduced into the Roman Empire by the Germans.
If, then, we assume that, at once in the occupied provinces and more gradually in Teutonic territory, gifts of land took the place of gifts of cattle and arms, but that the old associations with assignments of movables continued to attach to a Benefice in land, the transfer of idea—to my mind, at all events—explains better than anything else the transformation of the legal aspect of landed property.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The Germanic peoples whose legal systems are compared with Irish, English, and Hindoo law.
The virtual identity of the Irish law of Distress with the Teutonic law is best brought out by comparing it with the Teutonic systems of procedure collectively.
The comparison of the various Teutonic bodies of law suggests then to my mind, as regards those systems, the following conclusions respecting the historical development of the remedies which grew out of the savage practice of violently seizing property in redress for supposed wrong.