Law of the Kings

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Law of the Kings is a historic Ethiopian legal and religious code that served for centuries as the foundational basis of law and governance in Ethiopia.

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Law of the Kings canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical document
legal code
religious code
appliesTo Ethiopian clergy
Ethiopian monarch
Ethiopian nobility
Ethiopian subjects
appliesToJurisdiction Ethiopian Empire NERFINISHED
country Ethiopia
countryOfOrigin Ethiopia NERFINISHED
describedAs foundational basis of law and governance in Ethiopia for centuries
field Ethiopian studies NERFINISHED
law
religion
genre legal text
religious text
hasPart civil law provisions
criminal law provisions
ecclesiastical regulations
family law provisions
hasType royal law code
historicalRole codified relationship between church and state in Ethiopia
served as supreme legal authority in traditional Ethiopian courts
impact influenced later Ethiopian legal reforms
shaped Ethiopian legal culture for centuries
inception Middle Ages NERFINISHED
influencedBy Biblical law
Byzantine legal traditions
Christian canon law NERFINISHED
language Geʽez NERFINISHED
legalStatus foundational legal code of Ethiopia
region Horn of Africa NERFINISHED
regulates inheritance
judicial procedures
marriage
property rights
religious observance
royal authority
religion Christianity
religiousTradition Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church NERFINISHED
script Geʽez script NERFINISHED
temporalCoverage early modern Ethiopia
medieval Ethiopia
pre‑modern Ethiopia
use basis of governance
basis of law
religious regulation

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Fetha Nagast hasAlternativeName Law of the Kings