Tribal Custom In Anglo-Saxon Law

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Author

Seebohm, Frederic, 1833-1912

Title

Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law Being an Essay Supplemental to (1) 'The English Village Community', (2) 'The Tribal System in Wales'

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Produced by MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

KD: Law in general, Comparative and uniform law, Jurisprudence: United Kingdom and Ireland

Subject

Law, Medieval

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Text

eBook-No.

56145

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56145

Release Date

December 7, 2017

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TRIBAL CUSTOM IN ANGLO-SAXON LAW
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.CHAPTER I. THE CURRENCY IN WHICH WERGELDS WERE RECKONED AND PAID. — I. CONNECTION BETWEEN THE WERGELD OF 100 HEAD OF CATTLE AND THE MINA OF 100 GOLD STATERS. — II. THE SAME EQUATION REPEATED BETWEEN THE WERGELDS OF WESTERN TRIBES AND 200 GOLD SOLIDI OF CONSTANTINE. — III. THE FRANKISH CURRENCY. — IV. THE NORMAN AND ANGLO-SAXON CURRENCY. — V. THE MINAS WHICH SURVIVED IN USE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE ROMAN POUND. — VI. THE USE OF GOLD TORQUES AND ARMLETS, &C., INSTEAD OF COINS.
5. 5.CHAPTER II. SUMMARY OF THE CYMRIC EVIDENCE. — I. THE UNIT OF CYMRIC TRIBAL SOCIETY. — II. THE CONSTITUTION AND WORKING OF THE GWELY. — III. THE LIABILITY OF THE WIDER KINDRED FOR GALANAS IN CASE OF HOMICIDE. — IV. THE FISCAL UNIT FOR THE PURPOSE OF FOOD-RENTS TO THE CHIEFTAINS. — V. THE METHOD OF PAYMENT OF GALANAS BETWEEN KINDREDS. — VI. THE AMOUNT OF THE CYMRIC GALANAS. — VII. THE METHODS OF TREATMENT OF STRANGERS OR NON-TRIBESMEN.
6. 6.CHAPTER III. THE EVIDENCE OF BEOWULF ON TRIBAL CUSTOM REGULATING FEUDS &c.
7. 7.CHAPTER IV. TRIBAL CUSTOM OF THE IRISH TRIBES. — I. THE ERIC FINE OF THE BREHON LAWS. — II. THE HONOUR-PRICE (ENECLANN). — III. THE GRADATIONS IN RANK UNDER THE BREHON LAWS. — IV. THE CURRENCY IN WHICH THE BREHON FINES WERE PAID. — V. THE IRISH COIRP-DIRE AND HONOUR-PRICE TRACED FURTHER BACK THAN THE BREHON LAWS. — VI. THE BRETON OR GALLIC WERGELD OF THE SO-CALLED ‘CANONES WALLICI.’ — VII. THE WERGELD OF ANCIENT GALLIC CUSTOM. THE EVIDENCE OF CÆSAR.
8. 8.CHAPTER V. THE WERGELDS OF THE BURGUNDIAN AND WISIGOTHIC LAWS. — I. THE BURGUNDIAN WERGELDS. — II. THE WERGELDS OF THE LEX WISIGOTHORUM.
9. 9.CHAPTER VI. TRIBAL CUSTOMS OF THE FRANKS AND OF THE TRIBES CONQUERED BY THE MEROVINGIAN KINGS. — I. THE WERGELDS OF THE LEX SALICA. — II. THE DIVISION OF CLASSES AS SHOWN BY THE AMOUNT OF THE WERGELD. — III. TRIBAL RULES OF SUCCESSION IN ‘TERRA SALICA.’ — IV. THE WERGELDS AND DIVISION OF CLASSES IN THE ‘LEX RIPUARIORUM.’ — V. THE ALAMANNIC AND BAVARIAN LAWS.
10. 10.CHAPTER VII. TRIBAL CUSTOMS OF THE TRIBES CONQUERED BY CHARLEMAGNE. — I. THE EFFECT UPON WERGELDS OF THE NOVA MONETA. — II. THE LEX FRISIONUM. — III. THE LEX SAXONUM. — IV. LEX ANGLIORUM ET WERINORUM, HOC EST THURINGORUM. — V. THE SO-CALLED LEX CHAMAVORUM. — VI. CONCLUDING REMARKS.
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII. THE TRIBAL CUSTOMS OF THE OLDEST SCANDINAVIAN LAWS. — I. THE MONETARY SYSTEM OF SCANDINAVIA. — II. THE WERGELDS OF THE GULATHING AND FROSTATHING LAWS. — III. THE GRADATIONS OF SOCIAL RANK DISCLOSED BY THE WERGELDS ETC. — IV. THE CLASSES OF FREE MEN AND THEIR RELATION TO LAND. — V. THE LEX SCANIA ANTIQUA. — VI. SCANIAN AND LOMBARDIC CUSTOM COMPARED.
12. 12.CHAPTER IX. TRIBAL CUSTOM IN SCOTLAND. — I. TRACES OF TRIBAL CUSTOM IN THE LAWS OF THE EARLY KINGS. — II. THE ‘REGIAM MAJESTATEM.’ — III. LEGES INTER BRETTOS ET SCOTOS. — IV. RECOGNITION OF THE FOURTH AND NINTH DEGREES OF KINDRED IN SCOTLAND.
13. 13.CHAPTER X. ANGLO-SAXON CUSTOM FROM THE NORMAN POINT OF VIEW. — I. ANGLO-SAXON CUSTOM AS APPLIED TO NORMANS. — II. NORMAN VIEW OF WESSEX CUSTOM.
14. 14.CHAPTER XI. DANISH VIEW OF ANGLO-SAXON CUSTOM. — I. THE ‘DE INSTITUTIS LUNDONIE’—OF CNUT (?) — II. FRAGMENT ‘OF “GRITH” AND OF “MUND.”’ — III. THE ‘FRITH’ BETWEEN ETHELRED II. AND OLAF TRYGGVASON, A.D. 993.
15. 15.CHAPTER XII. ANGLO-SAXON CUSTOM FROM THE VIKING OR NORTHMEN’S POINT OF VIEW. — I. THE COMPACT BETWEEN KING ALFRED AND GUTHRUM, A.D. 886. — II. THE COURSE OF PROCEDURE IN PAYMENT OF WERGELD. — III. FRAGMENTS OF MERCIAN AND THE NORTH PEOPLE’S LAW.
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII. EARLY ANGLO-SAXON CUSTOM. — I. KING ALFRED’S DOOMS. — II. THE DIALOGUE OF EGBERT, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK A.D. 732-766. ECCLESIASTICAL OATHS AND WERGELDS. — III. THE DOOMS OF INE, A.D. 688-725. — IV. THE POSITION OF STRANGERS IN BLOOD UNDER KING INE’S LAWS.—THE SIX-HYNDEMAN. — V. THE TWELVE-HYNDE AND TWY-HYNDE MEN AND THEIR HYNDENS OF OATH-HELPERS. — VI. THE GESITHCUND AND CEORLISC CLASSES IN THEIR CONNECTION WITH LAND. — VII. COMPARISON OF WESSEX AND MERCIAN WERGELDS WITH THOSE OF CONTINENTAL TRIBES.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIV. THE LAWS OF THE KENTISH KINGS. — I. DISTINCTION FROM ANGLO-SAXON LAWS, A.D. 596-696. — II. THE SCÆTTS AND SCILLINGS OF THE KENTISH LAWS. — III. THE LAWS OF ETHELBERT. — IV. THE LAWS OF HLOTHÆRE AND EADRIC, A.D. 685-6. — V. THE LAWS OF KING WIHTRÆD, A.D. 690-696. — VI. THE DIVISION OF CLASSES UNDER KENTISH CUSTOM. — VII. THE AMOUNT OF THE KENTISH WERGELDS. — VIII. RESULT OF THE KENTISH EVIDENCE.
18. 18.CHAPTER XV. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS.
19. 19.FOOTNOTES
20. 20.INDEX.

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