| 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. |
| 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. |
| The leges and Menexenus stand apart from the Cycle, as compositions on special occasion. |
| 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. |
| Of this sort of leges some very valuable specimens have come from Spanish soil, viz. |
| These parts of the Breviarium consisted of leges, that is, of constitutions of the emperors. |
