Frankish customary law

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customary law legal tradition medieval law

Frankish customary law was the early medieval legal tradition of the Franks, combining Germanic tribal customs with Roman legal concepts and shaping much of Western Europe’s feudal and regional law codes.

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Label	Occurrences
Frankish customary law canonical	1
Frankish law	1

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	customary law ⓘ legal tradition ⓘ medieval law ⓘ
appliedBy	counts and royal officials ⓘ local courts ⓘ royal courts ⓘ
appliesTo	Carolingian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Frankish kingdoms NERFINISHED ⓘ Franks NERFINISHED ⓘ Merovingian realm NERFINISHED ⓘ
characteristic	differentiated legal status by social rank ⓘ oath-helpers (compurgation) ⓘ ordeals as proof ⓘ royal capitularies as supplements ⓘ strong role of kinship in liability ⓘ use of wergild (compensation payments) ⓘ written redactions of earlier oral customs ⓘ
codifiedIn	Lex Burgundionum NERFINISHED ⓘ Lex Ribuaria NERFINISHED ⓘ Lex Salica NERFINISHED ⓘ
developedFrom	Germanic tribal customs ⓘ Roman provincial law ⓘ late Roman imperial law ⓘ
follows	Germanic customary law ⓘ Roman law influences ⓘ
hasPart	Burgundian law ⓘ Lex Burgundionum NERFINISHED ⓘ Lex Ribuaria NERFINISHED ⓘ Lex Salica NERFINISHED ⓘ Ripuarian law NERFINISHED ⓘ Salic law NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	Capetian legal practice ⓘ feudal law in Western Europe ⓘ medieval French coutumes ⓘ medieval German territorial laws ⓘ medieval criminal law in Western Europe ⓘ medieval inheritance law in Western Europe ⓘ medieval procedural law in Western Europe ⓘ regional customary laws in France ⓘ
language	Latin (in written redactions) ⓘ vernacular Frankish glosses ⓘ
legalSystemType	personal law system ⓘ territorial law system ⓘ
regulated	criminal offenses ⓘ inheritance ⓘ marriage and family relations ⓘ procedural rules for courts ⓘ property rights ⓘ
timePeriod	5th century ⓘ 6th century ⓘ 7th century ⓘ 8th century ⓘ 9th century ⓘ early Middle Ages ⓘ

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Subject: Frankish customary law
Description of subject: Frankish customary law was the early medieval legal tradition of the Franks, combining Germanic tribal customs with Roman legal concepts and shaping much of Western Europe’s feudal and regional law codes.

Referenced by (2)

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Brabantine customary law → influencedBy → Frankish customary law ⓘ

Middle Francia → legalSystem → Frankish customary law ⓘ

this entity surface form: Frankish law