Ius Teutonicum

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As Ius Teutonicum or Libertas Teutonica the special legal status of the German settlers during the medieval is Ostsiedlung in the non-German areas of eastern central Europe called. This includes an extensive exemption from the respective national law (cf. Ius Slavicum , Ius Bohemicale , Ius Polonicum ), in particular its performance obligations, officials and courts. Instead, the introduction of the liberal, progressive constitutional, legal, economic and social order brought with them from the settlement areas was granted, which in turn was characterized by hoof constitution , inheritance law , rationalization of work and taxes, personal freedom, security of property, self-chosen material law , own jurisdiction as well as community formation under one locator ( Schulz , Vogt ). The ius Teutonicum appears both as a village law and as a city ​​law in various variants, e.g. B. Franconian , Flemish or Lübeck or Magdeburg law. Over time, non-German settlements were also increasingly given to the east, thus initiating a profound transformation of domestic conditions.

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