Germanic legal codes

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

thumb|Choosing the king. Top: the three ecclesiastical princes choosing the king, pointing at him. Middle: the Electorate of the Palatinate|Count Palatine of the Rhine hands over a golden bowl, acting as a servant. Behind him, the Duke of Saxony with his marshall's staff and the [[Margrave of Brandenburg bringing a bowl of warm water, as a valet. Below, the new king in front of the great men of the empire (Heidelberg Sachsenspiegel, around 1300)]] thumb|Page in Sachsenspiegel about succession (Heidelberg edition)

set of laws used in the Visigothic Kingdom

code of Lombard customary law

thumb|Title page of a 1901 printing thumb|Charlemagne depicted in a 15th-century manuscript of the Schwabenspiegel The Schwabenspiegel is a legal code, written in ca. 1275 by a Franciscan friar in Augsburg. It deals mainly with questions of land ownership and fiefdom, and it is based on the Pentateuch, Roman law as well as Canon law. Written in Middle High German, it draws on the early 13th century Sachsenspiegel, and is immediately dependent on the '''' code.

code of law of the Burgundians

set of Germanic laws

thumb|right|A page of the late 13th century law . ' ( or ) or the Västgöta (Westrogothic) law' is the oldest Swedish text written in Latin script and the oldest of all Swedish provincial laws. It was compiled in the early 13th century, probably at least partly at the instigation of Eskil Magnusson and was the code of law used in the provinces of Västergötland and Dalsland and in Mo härad during the latter half of that century. The earliest complete text is dated 1281. Small fragments of an older text have been dated 1250.

7th-century collection of Frankish law

statute

series of laws issued to subdue the Saxon nation

law of the historical provinces of Scania

8th-century Frisian legal code

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

early medieval law code of the Alamanni

Law code that survives today in one 10th-century manuscript, the Codex Corbeiensis

historic Spanish legal code

Compurgation, also called trial by oath, wager of law, and oath-helping, was a defence used primarily in medieval law. A defendant could establish his innocence or nonliability by taking an oath and by getting a required number of persons, typically twelve, to swear they believed the defendant's oath. The wager of law was essentially a character reference, initially by kin and later by neighbours (from the same region as the defendant), often 11 or 12 men, and it was a way to give credibility to the oath of a defendant at a time when a person's oath had more credibility than a written record.

thumb|First page of one manuscript of the Brokmerbrief __NOTOC__ The Brokmerbrief or Law of Brokmerland is the early 13th-century law code of the brocmanni, the inhabitants of Brokmerland, west of Aurich in East Frisia. The area had been placed under cultivation and settled by the end of the 12th century. It survives in two manuscripts. The work is sometimes referred to as the Brookmerbrief, using the modern spelling of "Brookmerland".

title of a Danish statute book from 1683

section of Norwegian law from the 17th century

oldest manuscript of the Danish Code of Jutland

visigothic legal code