Lombard law

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The Lombard law is one of the most important Germanic people's rights , the basic codification the Edictum Rothari (also Edictus ) Made of 643, by the former after a period of Romanization and Christianization King Rothari the old tribal customary law strengthened, renewed and improved.

The edict expresses the idea of ​​king and people working together in righteousness.

It flows with the complementary laws of the later Lombard kings and with the added under Frankish rule capitularies in the 11th century Liber Papiensis - the law school of Pavia attributed - along whose manuscripts with Liber legis Langobardorum are titled.

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