Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law: Being an Essay Supplemental to (1) 'The English Village Community', (2) 'The Tribal System in Wales'Seebohm, Frederic
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Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law: Being an Essay Supplemental to (1) 'The English Village Community', (2) 'The Tribal System in Wales'
Seebohm, Frederic
Anglo-Saxons; Law, Anglo-Saxon; Law, Medieval; Tribes -- Great Britain
III. THE LIABILITY OF THE WIDER KINDRED FOR GALANAS IN CASE
OF HOMICIDE 30
IV. THE FISCAL UNIT FOR THE PURPOSE OF FOOD-RENTS TO THE
CHIEFTAINS 33
V. THE METHOD OF PAYMENT OF GALANAS BETWEEN KINDREDS 42
VI. THE AMOUNT OF THE CYMRIC GALANAS 46
VII. THE METHODS OF TREATMENT OF STRANGERS OR NON-TRIBESMEN 50
CHAPTER III.
_THE EVIDENCE OF BEOWULF ON TRIBAL CUSTOM REGULATING FEUDS &c._, 56
CHAPTER IV.
_TRIBAL CUSTOM OF THE IRISH TRIBES._
I. THE ERIC FINE OF THE BREHON LAWS 73
II. THE HONOUR-PRICE (ENECLANN) 80
III. THE GRADATIONS IN RANK UNDER THE BREHON LAWS 83
IV. THE CURRENCY IN WHICH THE BREHON FINES WERE PAID 97
V. THE IRISH COIRP-DIRE AND HONOUR-PRICE TRACED FURTHER BACK
THAN THE BREHON LAWS 100
VI. THE BRETON OR GALLIC WERGELD OF THE SO-CALLED ‘CANONES
WALLICI’ 105
VII. THE WERGELD OF ANCIENT GAELIC CUSTOM. THE EVIDENCE OF CÆSAR 115
CHAPTER V.
_THE WERGELDS OF THE BURGUNDIAN AND WISIGOTHIC LAWS._
I. THE BURGUNDIAN WERGELDS 121
II. THE WERGELDS OF THE LEX WISIGOTHORUM 126
CHAPTER VI.
_TRIBAL CUSTOMS OF FRANKS AND OF THE TRIBES CONQUERED
BY THE MEROVINGIAN KINGS._
I. THE WERGELDS OF THE LEX SALICA 131
II. THE DIVISION OF CLASSES AS SHOWN BY THE AMOUNT OF THE WERGELD 147
III. TRIBAL RULES OF SUCCESSION IN ‘TERRA SALICA’ 150
IV. THE WERGELDS AND DIVISION OF CLASSES IN THE ‘LEX RIPUARIORUM’ 163
V. THE ALAMANNIC AND BAVARIAN LAWS 172
CHAPTER VII.
_TRIBAL CUSTOMS OF THE TRIBES CONQUERED BY CHARLEMAGNE._
I. THE EFFECT UPON WERGELDS OF THE NOVA MONETA 179
II. THE LEX FRISIONUM 194
III. THE LEX SAXONUM 213
IV. LEX ANGLIORUM ET WERINORUM, HOC EST THURINGORUM 224
V. THE SO-CALLED LEX CHAMAVORUM 229
VI. CONCLUDING REMARKS 231
CHAPTER VIII.
_THE TRIBAL CUSTOMS OF THE OLDEST SCANDINAVIAN LAWS._
I. THE MONETARY SYSTEM OF SCANDINAVIA 233
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