Early Germanic law

type of governing assembly

method of execution

component of early Germanic culture

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.

thumb|Erling Skjalgsson sets his thralls to day-work ([[Erik Werenskiold, 1899)]]

thesis regarding the role of kings among the pre-Christianized Germanic tribes of the Migration period

Sippenhaft or Sippenhaftung (, kin liability) is a German term for the idea that a family or clan shares the responsibility for a crime or act committed by one of its members, justifying collective punishment. As a legal principle, it was derived from Germanic law in the Middle Ages, usually in the form of fines and compensations. It was adopted by Nazi Germany to justify the punishment of kin (relatives, spouse) for the offence of a family member. Punishment often involved imprisonment and execution, and was applied to relatives of the conspirators of the failed 1944 bomb plot to assassinate

thumb|right|DR 270 in Scania, modern [[Sweden, is one of several runestones that were raised in commemoration of someone's '.]] ''' (Old Norse, meaning "fellowship, partnership") was a joint financial venture between partners in Viking Age society.

law of the historical provinces of Scania

Medieval Latin legal expression which may be translated as "in the Danish manner"

subset of Germanic law practiced by North Germanic peoples

legal relationship

oldest manuscript of the Danish Code of Jutland

Sippe is German for "clan, kindred, extended family" (Frisian Sibbe, Norse Sifjar).

Friedelehe meaning "lover marriage" is a term for a postulated form of Germanic marriage said to have existed during the Early Middle Ages. The concept was introduced into mediaeval historiography in the 1920s by Herbert Meyer. There is some controversy as to whether such a marriage form, a quasi-marriage, existed but historians who have identified it agree that it was not accepted by the Church.

legal term used in the Salian code

Weisthümer is a collection of partially oral legal traditions from rural German-speaking Europe by Jacob Grimm, published in four volumes (1840–1863), intended for use in research into Germanic law.