Lombard law

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Lombard law was the early medieval legal code of the Lombard Kingdom in Italy, blending Germanic customary law with Roman legal traditions.

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Lombard law codes 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Germanic law
early medieval law
legal code
appliesInPeriod Early Middle Ages NERFINISHED
appliesTo Lombard Kingdom NERFINISHED
Lombards NERFINISHED
appliesToGroup Lombard freemen NERFINISHED
Lombard king’s dependents
Lombard nobles
codificationDate 643
codifiedAs Edictum Rothari NERFINISHED
codifiedBy Rothari NERFINISHED
coexistedWith Roman law in Italy
country Lombard Kingdom NERFINISHED
developedFrom Lombard customary law
follows Germanic customary law
hasCharacteristic Germanic-Roman legal synthesis
combination of written edicts and customary practice
personal law system
hasPart Edictum Rothari NERFINISHED
hasSourceType customary law
royal edict
incorporates Roman legal concepts
influenced Italian medieval law
legal practice in the Kingdom of Italy under the Franks
influencedBy Germanic tribal law
Roman law NERFINISHED
inForceIn Northern Italy NERFINISHED
parts of Central Italy
language Latin NERFINISHED
laterDevelopedBy Aistulf NERFINISHED
Grimoald NERFINISHED
Liutprand NERFINISHED
Ratchis NERFINISHED
legalStatusUnderFranks personal law for Lombards
legalSystem Germanic customary law
Roman legal tradition
mainTerritory Italy NERFINISHED
originatesFrom Lombard Kingdom in Italy NERFINISHED
referredToAs lex Langobardorum NERFINISHED
regulates compensation for injury
criminal law
family law
inheritance
private law
property law
usesConcept oath-taking
ordeal
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Rothari legalSystem Lombard law
subject surface form: Edictum Rothari
royal court of the Lombards in Pavia influenced Lombard law
this entity surface form: Lombard law codes