Anglo-Saxon law
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Anglo-Saxon law (Old English ǣ, later lagu "law"; dōm "decree, judgement") is a body of written rules and customs that were in place during the Anglo-Saxon period in England, before the Norman conquest. This body of law, along with early Scandinavian law and continental Germanic law, descended from a family of ancient Germanic custom and legal thought. However, Anglo-Saxon law codes are distinct from other early Germanic legal statements - known as the leges barbarorum - in part because they were written in Anglo-Saxon, instead of in Latin. The laws of the Anglo-Saxons were the second in medieval Western Europe after those of the Irish to be expressed in a language other than Latin.
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See also
- Æthelberht of Kent#Law code
- Rule of law
- Rule According to Higher Law
- The Walkington Wold burials are evidence for the practice of beheading criminals and the public display of their severed heads.
- Anglo-Saxon Dooms
- Early Frisian laws
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Comparative customary law systems
- Aqsaqal (Central Asia)
- Adat (Malays of Nusantara)
- Urf (Arab world/Islamic law)
- Pashtunwali and Jirga (Pashtuns of Pakistan and Afghanistan)
- Smriti and Ācāra (India)
- Coutume (France)
- Customary Aboriginal law (Australia)
- Xeer (Somalia)
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