Salic Law
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Leges Barbarorum · barbarian codes · the Salic law
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Ancient Law
The written law codes of the Germanic barbarian tribes, argued to contain a substantial Roman legal element.
It is extremely likely that the codes of the barbarians, archaic as they seem, are only a compound of true primitive usage with half-understood Roman rules, and that it was the foreign ingredient which enabled them to coalesce with a Roman jurisprudence that had already receded somewhat from the comparative finish which it had acquired under the Western Emperors.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Fifth-century Teutonic legal code of the Salian Franks, source for reconstructing early Germanic justice.
This is the Salic Law, the oldest of the Teutonic codes, the oldest portrait of Germanic institutions drawn by a German.
But at this very point the Salic Law puts us on the trace of one of the greatest services which royal authority has rendered to civil justice.
As the Hundred Court appears in the Salic Law, it looks at first sight like an entirely popular tribunal with which royal authority has nothing to do.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The oldest of the Leges Barbarorum, cited as a comparative early legal code.
It is impossible to determine how much new law there was in the Laws of Solon, or in the Twelve Tables of Rome, or in the Laws of Alfred and Canute, or in the Salic Law which is the oldest of the so-called Leges Barbarorum, but in all probability the quantity was extremely small.