Swedish medieval provincial laws

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Swedish medieval provincial laws were regionally specific legal codes that governed various aspects of life, justice, and property in different parts of medieval Sweden before the emergence of a unified national law.

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Swedish medieval provincial laws canonical 1
Uppland Law 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical legal source
medieval legal code collection
appliesToTerritory medieval Sweden
characteristic combination of oral tradition and written codification
regional variation
country Sweden
documentedIn medieval law manuscripts
governs blood feuds and compensation
church rights and tithes
dispute resolution
inheritance shares
land boundaries
marriage and divorce
royal rights and obligations
village communities
hasPart Dalarna Law
Gotland Law
Hälsinge Law
Småland provincial laws
Södermanland Law
Swedish medieval provincial laws self-linksurface differs
surface form: Uppland Law

Västgöta Law
Östgöta Law
influenced Magnus Eriksson’s national law
later Swedish legal tradition
influencedBy canon law
customary law
royal legislation
language Middle Swedish
surface form: Old Swedish
legalStatus regional law
legalSystem Germanic law tradition
precedes Magnus Eriksson’s national law
primarySourceFor medieval Swedish economy
medieval Swedish legal history
medieval Swedish social structure
medieval Swedish society
regulates criminal law
ecclesiastical matters
family law
fines and compensation
inheritance law
land tenure
procedural law
property law
replacedBy unified Swedish national law
temporalCoverage 13th century
14th century
Middle Ages

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Swedish medieval provincial laws hasPart Swedish medieval provincial laws self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Uppland Law