From the time of Charlemagne the above-named German tribes lived under Frankish constitution retaining their own old laws, the leges barbarorum, which Charlemagne codified. |
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As such, the Code marks the transition from the Roman law to Germanic law and is one of the best surviving examples of leges barbarorum. |
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There is a very early distinction between the rules enacted by the Church and the legislative measures taken by the State called leges, Latin for laws. |
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James III of Majorca, vassal of the Kingdom of Aragon, used a coat of arms with four bars, as seen on the Leges Palatinae miniatures. |
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The practice of slavery was not outlawed, and the Leges Henrici Primi from the reign of King Henry I continue to mention slaveholding as legal. |
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The Leges Statutae Republicae Sancti Marini was written in Latin and consists of six books. |
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In the earliest extant Scottish legal manuscript, there is a document called Leges inter Brettos et Scottos. |
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The legal tract, the Leges inter Brettos et Scottos, set out a system of compensation for injury and death based on ranks and the solidarity of kin groups. |
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The Leges Salica, Ribuaria, and Chamavorum were Carolingian creations, their basis in earlier Frankish reality being difficult for scholars to discern at the present distance. |
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Both are published in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica's Leges series. |
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In 1305 Edward I of England prohibited the Leges inter Brettos et Scottos. |
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