| Keywords |
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| ID |
5311 |
| Text |
Liutprand Leges Anni VIII (720 - 720) Liutprand |
| Quotation |
Si quis negotium peragendum vel pro qualicumque artificio intra provincia vel extra provincia ambolaverit et in tres annos regressus non fuerit et forsitan infirmitas ei emerserit faciat scire per iudicem aut per missam suum… |
| Translation |
If anyone travels within the country or outside the country for the purpose of carrying on any business or any craft whatever. If he does not return within three years because some illness has befallen him, he should make it known to his judge or his agent…
(Emended from K. Fischer-Drew, trans., The Lombard Laws (1973), p. 152) |
| Summary |
Liutprand, No. 18 establishes a situation where a person (typically a merchant or craftsman) can effectively be declared dead, at least for legal purposes, if he has been travelling either within or beyond the country for more then three years and has not informed his judge [iudex] or another agent [missam] in that time. The law then allows for his property to be inherited (and details cirucsmtnaces should he return later), and for his wife to remarry with royal permission. |
| Quotation source |
MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), p. 115 |
| Temporal Coverage |
720 - 720 |
| Associated use case(s) |
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| Comment |
The Liutprand Leges Anno VIII form part of the Leges Liutprandi [Text, ID:1098] and in turn are part of the collected Edictus Langobardorum [Text, ID:984]. |
