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Medieval legal codes

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Corpus Juris Civilis

collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence as codified by Justinian

Russkaia Pravda

legal code of Yaroslav the Wise

14th-century set of laws

Castilian medieval code of laws

The Law Code of Vinodol

oldest law texts

Sudebnik of 1497

collection of laws introduced by Ivan III in 1497

Zakon Sudnyi Liudem

oldest preserved Slavic legal text

Assizes of Jerusalem

collection of medieval laws

Constitutions of Melfi

collection of laws for the Kingdom of Sicily issued in 1231

Assizes of Ariano

constitutive assembly of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily

Edictum Theodorici

set of laws and privileges of medieval Scandinavian merchant towns

historic Spanish legal code

Poljica Statute

legal statute of the Republic of Poljica

Pskov Judicial Charter

legal code of the Pskov Republic

Statutes of Casimir the Great

laws issued by Casimir III, King of Poland

Ethiopian legal code compiled c. 1240

collections of church and secular law

Constitutio Romana

contract between King Lothair I of Italy and Pope Eugene II

Assizes of Romania

common law code of the states of Frankish Greece

Usages of Barcelona

customs that became the basis for Catalan constitutions

Cáin Adomnáin

697 prohibition against war crimes in Ireland

system of Welsh law practised in medieval Wales before Edward I's conquest

Church Statute of Prince Vladimir