11 Facts About Germanic law

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Germanic law is a scholarly term used to described a series of commonalities between the various law codes of the early Germanic peoples.

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Concept of "Germanic law" arose in the modern period, at a time when scholars thought that the written and unwritten principles of the ancient Germanic peoples could be reconstructed in a reasonably coherent form.

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Early ideas about Germanic law have come under intense scholarly scrutiny since the 1950s, and specific aspects of it such as the legal importance of sibb, retinues, and loyalty, and the concept of outlawry can no longer be justified.

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Gerhard Dilcher defends the notion of Germanic law by noting that the Germanic peoples clearly had law-like rules that they, under the influence of Rome, began to write down and used to define aspects of their identity.

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The Germanic peoples associated with the laws were not homogenous ethnic or linguistic groups in the modern sense.

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The level of severity of the Germanic law was "tempered" by this mercy, specifically for the poor; it was thought that by showing paternal love in formation of Germanic law, the legislator gained the love of citizen.

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The Salic Germanic law was used to bring order to Frank society, the main punishment for crimes being a fine with a worth designated to the type of crime.

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8.

The Germanic law uses capital punishment only in cases of witchcraft and poisoning.

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9.

In some, but not all, manuscripts of the Liber Papiensis each section of the edict is accompanied by specimen pleadings setting out the cause of action: in this way it comes near to being a treatment of substantive Germanic law as opposed to a simple tariff of penalties as found in the other Leges barbarorum.

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The Germanic law's compilation is most commonly dated between 744 and 748, by the following argument; Immediately after the revolt of Bavaria in 743 the Bavarian Duke Odilo was forced to submit to Pippin the Younger and Carloman, the sons of Charles Martel, and to recognize Frankish suzerainty.

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The Germanic law established the ancient customs, at the same time eliminating anything that was contrary to the spirit of Christianity; it proclaimed the peace of the churches, whose possessions it guaranteed and whose right of asylum it recognized.

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