6th century in law

major body of Frankish law governing all the Franks of Frankia under the rule of its kings during the Old Frankish Period

collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence as codified by Justinian

Roman law digest

thumb|upright=1.5|Image of a murder by a minor and the subsequent paying of wergild, in Heidelberger Sachsenspiegel Cgm 165 fol. 11r. This is one of the only images of wergild payment from the Middle Ages.

one of the four components of the “Corpus juris civilis” drafted under the Byzantine emperor Justinian

sixth century codification of Roman law