73 relations: Aldii, Allodial title, Anglo-Saxon law, Óðr, Banditry, Basque civil law, Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, Bavarians, Biblioteca statale del Monumento Nazionale Badia di Cava, Blood money (restitution), Celtic law, Civil law (legal system), Code of Euric, Compurgation, Constitution, Crime, Cruentation, Custom (law), Denmark, Early Irish law, Edictum Rothari, Electoral college, George Phillips (canon lawyer), Gerichtslinde, Germanic kingship, Germanic peoples, Germany, Hen Ogledd, History of Rochester, Kent, Inquisition, Kingdom of Burgundy, Kingdom of the Burgundians, Kingdom of the Lombards, Knésetja, Landed property, Law of Brazil, Law of Germany, Law of persons in South Africa, Legal history of wills, Leges, Lex Alamannorum, Lex Baiuvariorum, Lex familiae, Lex Frisionum, Lex Ripuaria, Lex Thuringorum, Marital power, Medieval Scandinavian law, Name of the Franks, Odilo, Duke of Bavaria, ..., Outlaw, Outline of law, Poaching, Recceswinth, Roman law, Romano-Germanic culture, Sachsenspiegel, Salic law, Salic patrimony, Simon Corcoran, Sippenhaft, South African family law, Thomas de Littleton, Thrall, Tort, Trial by combat, Tyrol, Visigothic Code, Weisthümer, Weregild, Wilhelm Ebel, Witch trials in the early modern period, Xeer. Expand index (23 more) »
Aldii
Aldii were semifree in Germanic law.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Aldii · See more »
Allodial title
Allodial title constitutes ownership of real property (land, buildings, and fixtures) that is independent of any superior landlord.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Allodial title · See more »
Anglo-Saxon law
Anglo-Saxon law (Old English ǣ, later lagu "law"; dōm "decree, judgment") is a body of written rules and customs that were in place during the Anglo-Saxon period in England, before the Norman conquest.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Anglo-Saxon law · See more »
Óðr
In Norse mythology, Óðr (Old Norse for the "Divine Madness, frantic, furious, vehement, eager", as a noun "mind, feeling" and also "song, poetry"; Orchard (1997) gives "the frenzied one"Orchard (1997:121).) or Óð, sometimes angliziced as Odr or Od, is a figure associated with the major goddess Freyja.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Óðr · See more »
Banditry
Banditry is the life and practice of bandits.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Banditry · See more »
Basque civil law
Basque civil law is the civil law partially applicable in the Spanish part of the Basque Country.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Basque civil law · See more »
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (Schlacht im Teutoburger Wald, Hermannsschlacht, or Varusschlacht, Disfatta di Varo), described as the Varian Disaster (Clades Variana) by Roman historians, took place in the Teutoburg Forest in 9 CE, when an alliance of Germanic tribes ambushed and decisively destroyed three Roman legions and their auxiliaries, led by Publius Quinctilius Varus.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Battle of the Teutoburg Forest · See more »
Bavarians
Bavarians (Bavarian: Boarn, Standard German: Bayern) are nation and ethnographic group of Germans of the Bavaria region, a state within Germany.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Bavarians · See more »
Biblioteca statale del Monumento Nazionale Badia di Cava
The Biblioteca statale del Monumento Nazionale Badia di Cava or the State Library of the National Monument of the Abbey of Cava de' Tirreni, is a national library whose collection originated with works from the Benedictine abbey of La Trinità della Cava, located on Via Michele Morcaldi #6, Cava de' Tirreni, province of Salerno, region of Campania, Italy.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Biblioteca statale del Monumento Nazionale Badia di Cava · See more »
Blood money (restitution)
Blood money, also called bloodwit, is money or some sort of compensation paid by an offender (usually a murderer) or his/her family group to the family or kin group of the victim.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Blood money (restitution) · See more »
Celtic law
A number of law codes have in the past been in use in the various Celtic nations since the Middle Ages.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Celtic law · See more »
Civil law (legal system)
Civil law, civilian law, or Roman law is a legal system originating in Europe, intellectualized within the framework of Roman law, the main feature of which is that its core principles are codified into a referable system which serves as the primary source of law.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Civil law (legal system) · See more »
Code of Euric
The Codex Euricianus or Code of Euric was a collection of laws governing the Visigoths compiled at the order of Euric, King of the Visigoths, sometime before 480, probably at Toulouse (possible at Arles); it is one of the earliest examples of early Germanic law.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Code of Euric · See more »
Compurgation
Compurgation, also called wager of law and oath-helping, was a defence used primarily in medieval law.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Compurgation · See more »
Constitution
A constitution is a set of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is governed.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Constitution · See more »
Crime
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Crime · See more »
Cruentation
Cruentation (Latin: "ius cruentationis" or "Ius feretri sine sandapilae") was one of the medieval methods of finding proof against a suspected murderer.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Cruentation · See more »
Custom (law)
Custom in law is the established pattern of behavior that can be objectively verified within a particular social setting.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Custom (law) · See more »
Denmark
Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Denmark · See more »
Early Irish law
Early Irish law, also called Brehon law, comprised the statutes which governed everyday life in Early Medieval Ireland.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Early Irish law · See more »
Edictum Rothari
The Edictum Rothari (lit. Edict of Rothari; also Edictus Rothari or Edictum Rotharis) was the first written compilation of Lombard law, codified and promulgated on 22 November 643 by King Rothari.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Edictum Rothari · See more »
Electoral college
An electoral college is a set of electors who are selected to elect a candidate to a particular office.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Electoral college · See more »
George Phillips (canon lawyer)
George Phillips (6 September 1804, Königsberg – 6 September 1872, Vienna) was a German canon lawyer.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and George Phillips (canon lawyer) · See more »
Gerichtslinde
In the Holy Roman Empire, a Gerichtslinde (German for "court linden, doom linden"; plural -linden) was a linden tree where assemblies and judicial courts were held.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Gerichtslinde · See more »
Germanic kingship
Germanic kingship is a thesis regarding the role of kings among the pre-Christianized Germanic tribes of the Migration period (c. 300–700 AD) and Early Middle Ages (c. 700–1,000 AD).
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Germanic kingship · See more »
Germanic peoples
The Germanic peoples (also called Teutonic, Suebian, or Gothic in older literature) are an Indo-European ethno-linguistic group of Northern European origin.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Germanic peoples · See more »
Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Germany · See more »
Hen Ogledd
Yr Hen Ogledd, in English the Old North, is the region of Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands inhabited by the Celtic Britons of sub-Roman Britain in the Early Middle Ages.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Hen Ogledd · See more »
History of Rochester, Kent
Rochester is a town and former city in Kent, England.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and History of Rochester, Kent · See more »
Inquisition
The Inquisition was a group of institutions within the government system of the Catholic Church whose aim was to combat public heresy committed by baptized Christians.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Inquisition · See more »
Kingdom of Burgundy
Kingdom of Burgundy was a name given to various states located in Western Europe during the Middle Ages.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Kingdom of Burgundy · See more »
Kingdom of the Burgundians
The Kingdom of the Burgundians or First Kingdom of Burgundy was established by Germanic Burgundians in the Rhineland and then in Savoy in the 5th century.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Kingdom of the Burgundians · See more »
Kingdom of the Lombards
The Kingdom of the Lombards (Regnum Langobardorum) also known as the Lombard Kingdom; later the Kingdom of (all) Italy (Regnum totius Italiae), was an early medieval state established by the Lombards, a Germanic people, on the Italian Peninsula in the latter part of the 6th century.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Kingdom of the Lombards · See more »
Knésetja
Knésetja (lit. "knee-setting"; German Kniesetzung) is the Old Norse expression for a custom in Germanic law, by which adoption was formally expressed by setting the fosterchild on the knees of the foster-father.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Knésetja · See more »
Landed property
In real estate, a landed property or landed estate is a property that generates income for the owner without the owner having to do the actual work of the estate.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Landed property · See more »
Law of Brazil
The law of Brazil is based on statutes and, partly and more recently, a mechanism called súmulas vinculantes.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Law of Brazil · See more »
Law of Germany
The Law of Germany (Recht Deutschlands), that being the modern German legal system (Deutsches Rechtssystem), is a system of civil law which is founded on the principles laid out by the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, though many of the most important laws, for example most regulations of the civil code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, or BGB) were developed prior to the 1949 constitution.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Law of Germany · See more »
Law of persons in South Africa
The law of persons in South Africa regulates the birth, private-law status and the death of a natural person.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Law of persons in South Africa · See more »
Legal history of wills
Wills have a lengthy history.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Legal history of wills · See more »
Leges
Leges (plural of Latin lex: law) may refer to:;Literature.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Leges · See more »
Lex Alamannorum
The Lex Alamannorum and Pactus Alamannorum were two early medieval law codes of the Alamanni.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Lex Alamannorum · See more »
Lex Baiuvariorum
The Lex Baiuvariorum (also Lex Baiuwariorum, Lex Bajuvariorum, or Lex Baivariorum) was a collection of the tribal laws of the Bavarii of the sixth through eighth centuries.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Lex Baiuvariorum · See more »
Lex familiae
In the Holy Roman Empire, the lex familiae or ius curiae (German Hofrecht) during the Middle Ages (11th to 15th centuries) was the legislation concerning the relation between the free owner of an estate with both his free workers and his unfree serfs, as well as the legal relations among those employed at an estate.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Lex familiae · See more »
Lex Frisionum
Lex Frisionum, the "Law Code of the Frisians", was recorded in Latin during the reign of Charlemagne, after the year 785, when the Frankish conquest of Frisia was completed by the final defeat of the Saxon rebel leader Widukind.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Lex Frisionum · See more »
Lex Ripuaria
The Lex Ripuaria or Ribuaria is a 7th-century collection of Germanic law, the laws of the Ripuarian Franks.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Lex Ripuaria · See more »
Lex Thuringorum
The Lex Thuringorum ("Law of the Thuringians") is a law code that survives today in one 10th-century manuscript, the Codex Corbeiensis, alongside a copy of the Lex Saxonum, the law of the Saxons.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Lex Thuringorum · See more »
Marital power
In civil law jurisdictions, marital power (potestas maritalis, maritale macht, maritale mag) was a doctrine in terms of which a wife was legally an incapax under the usufructory tutorship (tutela usufructuaria) of her husband.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Marital power · See more »
Medieval Scandinavian law
Medieval Scandinavian law, a subset of Germanic law, was originally memorized by lawspeakers, but after the end of the Viking Age they were committed to writing, mostly by Christian monks after the Christianization of Scandinavia.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Medieval Scandinavian law · See more »
Name of the Franks
The name of the Franks (Latin Franci) and the derived names of Francia and Franconia (and the adjectives Frankish and Franconian) are derived from the name given to a Germanic tribal confederation which emerged in the 3rd century.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Name of the Franks · See more »
Odilo, Duke of Bavaria
Odilo, also Oatilo or Uatilo (died 18 January 748) of the Agilolfing dynasty was Duke of Bavaria from 736 until his death.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Odilo, Duke of Bavaria · See more »
Outlaw
In historical legal systems, an outlaw is declared as outside the protection of the law.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Outlaw · See more »
Outline of law
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to law: Law – is the set of rules and principles (laws) by which a society is governed, through enforcement by governmental authorities.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Outline of law · See more »
Poaching
Poaching has been defined as the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Poaching · See more »
Recceswinth
Recceswinth, also known as Reccesuinth, Recceswint, Reccaswinth, Recesvinto (Spanish, Galician and Portuguese), Recceswinthus, Reccesvinthus, and Recesvindus (Latin), (? – 1 September 672) was the Visigothic King of Hispania, Septimania and Galicia in 649–672.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Recceswinth · See more »
Roman law
Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables (c. 449 BC), to the Corpus Juris Civilis (AD 529) ordered by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I. Roman law forms the basic framework for civil law, the most widely used legal system today, and the terms are sometimes used synonymously.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Roman law · See more »
Romano-Germanic culture
The term Romano-Germanic describes the conflation of Roman culture with that of various Germanic peoples in areas successively ruled by the Roman Empire and Germanic "barbarian monarchies".
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Romano-Germanic culture · See more »
Sachsenspiegel
The Sachsenspiegel (literally “Saxon Mirror”; Middle Low German: Sassen Speyghel; Sassenspegel) is the most important law book and custumal of the Holy Roman Empire.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Sachsenspiegel · See more »
Salic law
The Salic law (or; Lex salica), or the was the ancient Salian Frankish civil law code compiled around AD 500 by the first Frankish King, Clovis.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Salic law · See more »
Salic patrimony
Salic patrimony (or inheritance or land property, after the legal term Terra salica used in the Salian code) refers to clan-based possession of real estate property, particularly in Germanic context.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Salic patrimony · See more »
Simon Corcoran
Simon Corcoran is a British ancient historian and lecturer in ancient history within the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Simon Corcoran · See more »
Sippenhaft
Sippenhaft or Sippenhaftung (kin liability) is a German term referring to the idea that a family can share the responsibility for a crime or act committed by one of its members; that is, it is a form of collective punishment because of family association.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Sippenhaft · See more »
South African family law
South African family law is concerned with those legal rules in South Africa which pertain to familial relationships.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and South African family law · See more »
Thomas de Littleton
Sir Thomas de Littleton or de Lyttleton (c.1407 – 23 August 1481) was an English judge and legal writer from the Lyttelton family.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Thomas de Littleton · See more »
Thrall
A thrall (Old Norse/Icelandic: þræll, Norwegian: trell, Danish: træl, Swedish: träl) was a slave or serf in Scandinavian lands during the Viking Age.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Thrall · See more »
Tort
A tort, in common law jurisdictions, is a civil wrong that causes a claimant to suffer loss or harm resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the tortious act.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Tort · See more »
Trial by combat
Trial by combat (also wager of battle, trial by battle or judicial duel) was a method of Germanic law to settle accusations in the absence of witnesses or a confession in which two parties in dispute fought in single combat; the winner of the fight was proclaimed to be right.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Trial by combat · See more »
Tyrol
Tyrol (historically the Tyrole, Tirol, Tirolo) is a historical region in the Alps; in northern Italy and western Austria.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Tyrol · See more »
Visigothic Code
The Visigothic Code (Latin, Forum Iudicum or Liber Iudiciorum; Spanish, Libro de los Jueces, Book of the Judges), also called Lex Visigothorum (English: Law of the Visigoths) is a set of laws first promulgated by king Chindasuinth (642-653) of the Visigothic Kingdom in his second year of rule (642-643) that survives only in fragments.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Visigothic Code · See more »
Weisthümer
Weisthümer is a collection of partially oral legal traditions from rural German-speaking Europe by Jacob Grimm, published in four volumes (1840–1863), intended for use in research into Germanic law.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Weisthümer · See more »
Weregild
Weregild (also spelled wergild, wergeld (in archaic/historical usage of English), weregeld, etc.), also known as man price, was a value placed on every being and piece of property, for example in the Frankish Salic Code.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Weregild · See more »
Wilhelm Ebel
Wilhelm Ebel (7 June 1908 – 22 June 1980), German National Library was a scholar of Early Germanic law, known for editing and translating a number of law codes.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Wilhelm Ebel · See more »
Witch trials in the early modern period
The period of witch trials in Early Modern Europe were a widespread moral panic suggesting that malevolent Satanic witches were operating as an organized threat to Christendom during the 16th to 18th centuries.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Witch trials in the early modern period · See more »
Xeer
Xeer (pronounced /ħeːr/) is the traditional legal system of Somalia, and one of the three systems from which formal Somali law draws its inspiration, the others being civil law and Islamic law.
New!!: Ancient Germanic law and Xeer · See more »
Redirects here:
Early Germanic Law, Early Germanic Laws, Early Germanic law, Early Germanic laws, Early germanic law, Germanic Law, Germanic Laws, Germanic law, Germanic laws, Germanic tribal law, Germanic tribal laws, Leges barbarorum.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Germanic_law