Flemish customary law
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Flemish customary law was the body of traditional, regionally based legal norms and practices that governed social, economic, and judicial life in the historical Flemish territories before the rise of centralized codified law.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flemish customary law canonical | 1 |
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
customary law
ⓘ
historical legal system ⓘ legal tradition ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
County of Flanders
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Flanders NERFINISHED ⓘ medieval Flemish towns ⓘ |
| basedOn |
feudal charters
ⓘ
judicial practice ⓘ local custom ⓘ unwritten norms ⓘ urban charters ⓘ |
| characteristic |
oral transmission
ⓘ
privileged status of certain towns ⓘ regional diversity ⓘ strong role of local courts ⓘ town–countryside legal differences ⓘ |
| codifiedInPartBy |
ducal ordinances
ⓘ
keuren (urban law codes) ⓘ land charters ⓘ |
| declinedWith |
introduction of codified civil law
ⓘ
rise of centralized legislation ⓘ |
| developedFrom | Germanic customary law ⓘ |
| enforcedBy |
schepenbanken
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
seigneurial courts ⓘ urban courts ⓘ |
| geographicScope |
coastal Flanders
ⓘ
historical Low Countries ⓘ inland Flanders ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Roman law reception
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
canon law ⓘ feudal law ⓘ |
| languageContext |
Latin (for written records)
ⓘ
Middle Dutch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| largelySupersededBy |
French Revolutionary law
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Napoleonic Code NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalDomain |
commercial law
ⓘ
criminal law ⓘ feudal law ⓘ private law ⓘ procedural law ⓘ |
| partlyReplacedBy | Burgundian-Habsburg ordinances NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regulated |
criminal offences and sanctions
ⓘ
guild relations ⓘ inheritance ⓘ local trade and markets ⓘ marriage and family relations ⓘ property rights ⓘ tenure and landholding ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Brabantine customary law
ⓘ
Hollandic customary law ⓘ |
| studiedIn | legal history of the Low Countries ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Middle Ages
ⓘ
early modern period ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.