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    Germanic law is a scholarly term used to describe a series of commonalities between the various law codes (the Leges Barbarorum, 'laws of the barbarians'...
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  • / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The Germanic spirant law, or Primärberührung, is a specific historical instance in linguistics...
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  • characters and Latin characters. Grimm's law (also known as the First Germanic Sound Shift) is a set of sound laws describing the Proto-Indo-European (PIE)...
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    civil law is the group of legal ideas and systems ultimately derived from the Corpus Juris Civilis, but heavily overlain by Napoleonic, Germanic, canonical...
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    The Germanic peoples were historical groups of people that once occupied Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the...
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    Early Germanic culture was the culture of the early Germanic peoples. Largely derived from a synthesis of Proto-Indo-European and indigenous Northern European...
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    Proto-Germanic eventually developed from pre-Proto-Germanic into three Germanic branches during the fifth century BC to fifth century AD: West Germanic, East...
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  • Italy. In the same context, Germanic law is also derisively termed leges barbarorum "barbarian law" etc. The thesis of Germanic kingship appeared in the...
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  • Romano-Germanic describes the conflation of Roman culture with that of various Germanic peoples in areas successively ruled by the Roman Empire and Germanic...
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  • Medieval Scandinavian law, also called North Germanic law, was a subset of Germanic law practiced by North Germanic peoples. It was originally memorized...
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    Thrall (category Early Germanic law)
    of the term in early Germanic law is servus. The thrall represents the lowest of the three-tiered social order of the Germanic peoples, noblemen, freemen...
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  • historical linguistics, the Germanic parent language (GPL), also known as Pre-Germanic Indo-European (PreGmc) or Pre-Proto-Germanic (PPG), is the reconstructed...
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    The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe,...
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  • Proto-Germanic itself, and in various Germanic subfamilies and languages. Germanic spirant law Grimm's law Holtzmann's law Sievers' law Verner's law Kluge's...
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  • principle in Germanic tradition and law that can be crudely translated as "protection" and which grew as the prerogative of a Germanic tribe king or...
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    North Germanic peoples, Nordic peoples and in a medieval context Norsemen, were a Germanic linguistic group originating from the Scandinavian Peninsula...
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    Norse: Burgundar; Old English: Burgendas; Greek: Βούργουνδοι) were an early Germanic tribe or group of tribes. They appeared in the middle Rhine region, near...
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    generally based on one of four basic systems: civil law, common law, customary law, religious law or combinations of these. However, the legal system...
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    Weregild (category Early Germanic law)
    "remuneration for a man", from Proto-Germanic *wira- "man, human" and *geld-a- "retaliation, remuneration". In the south Germanic area, this is the most common...
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    conquest. This body of law, along with early Medieval Scandinavian law and Germanic law, descended from a family of ancient Germanic custom and legal thought...
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    North Sea Germanic, also known as Ingvaeonic (/ˌɪŋviːˈɒnɪk/ ING-vee-ON-ik), is a postulated grouping of the northern West Germanic languages that consists...
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  • Romano-Germanic may refer to: Romano-Germanic culture of ancient Germanic peoples subject to the Roman Empire Romano-Germanic law, a family of legal systems...
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    Continental Germanic mythology. It was a key element of Germanic paganism. As the Germanic languages developed from Proto-Indo-European language, Germanic mythology...
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    culture Byzantine law Canon law Germanic law Roman law Western culture Tellegen-Couperus, Olga Eveline (1993). A Short History of Roman Law. Psychology Press...
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    Blood eagle (category Early Germanic law)
    The blood eagle was a method of ritual execution as detailed in late skaldic poetry. According to the two instances mentioned in the Christian sagas, the...
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    (also wager of battle, trial by battle or judicial duel) was a method of Germanic law to settle accusations in the absence of witnesses or a confession in...
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  • More danico (category Early Germanic law)
    accordance with Germanic law, rather than ecclesiastical marriage. The word "secular" here should not be interpreted to mean that no context of Germanic religion...
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    law dominated the legal practice of many European countries. A legal system, in which Roman law was mixed with elements of canon law and of Germanic custom...
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  • Holtzmann's law is a Proto-Germanic sound law originally noted by Adolf Holtzmann in 1838. It is also known by its traditional German name Verschärfung...
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  • combining characters and Latin characters. Verner's law describes a historical sound change in the Proto-Germanic language whereby consonants that would usually...
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