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 canonical 4
Lombard law codes 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Germanic law
early medieval law
legal code
appliesInPeriod Early Middle Ages
appliesTo Lombard Kingdom
Lombards
appliesToGroup Lombard freemen
linked to: Lombard nobility

Lombard king’s dependents
Lombard nobles
codificationDate 643
codifiedAs Edictum Rothari
codifiedBy Rothari
coexistedWith Roman law in Italy
country Lombard Kingdom
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
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
inForceIn Northern Italy
parts of Central Italy
language Latin
laterDevelopedBy Aistulf
Grimoald
Liutprand
Ratchis
legalStatusUnderFranks personal law for Lombards
legalSystem Germanic customary law
Roman legal tradition
mainTerritory Italy
originatesFrom Lombard Kingdom in Italy
referredToAs lex Langobardorum
regulates compensation for injury
criminal law
family law
inheritance
private law
property law
usesConcept oath-taking
ordeal
wergild

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Edictum Rothari legalSystem Lombard law
subject linked to: Rothari
royal court of the Lombards in Pavia influenced Lombard law codes
linked to: Lombard law
Lombard Italy legalSystem Lombard law
Laws of King Liutprand legalSystem Lombard law
Germanic customary law influenced Lombard law