Teutonic tribes
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Germanic tribes · Teutonic Codes · our ancestors · the German codes
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Institutes of Roman Law
Germanic peoples, including the English ancestors, whose oath-based purgation is contrasted with Roman practice.
The Teutonic tribes, including our ancestors, allowed a defendant to purge himself by his own oath supported by the oath of a certain number of his neighbours;
Ancient Law
Germanic peoples whose archaic codes are repeatedly used as comparative examples.
In the German codes, the civil part of the law has trifling dimensions as compared with the criminal.
This peculiarity, however, is most strongly brought out in the consolidated Laws of the Germanic tribes.
The principle is precisely the same as that followed in the Anglo-Saxon and other Germanic codes, when they suffer a thief chased down and caught with the booty to be hanged or decapitated on the spot, while they exact the full penalties of homicide from anybody who kills him after the pursuit has been intermitted.