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| ID |
5321 |
| Text |
Liutprand Leges Anni XI (723 - 723) Liutprand |
| Quotation |
Si quis sine voluntate regis in qualicumque civitatem contra iudicem suum seditionem levaberit aut aliquod malum fecerit vel eum sine iussione regis expellere quesierit aut alteri homines de altera civitate contra aliam civitatem vel alium iudicem ut supra sine iussione regis seditionem fecerint aut eum expellere sine regis voluntate quesierint tunc ille qui in caput fuerit anime sue incurrat periculum et omnes res eius ad puplicum deveniant reliqui autem qui cum ipso fuerint in malo consentientes unusquisque conponat in palatio wirgild suum. Et si casam cuiuscumque bluttaverint eut res eorum tulerint qui cum palatio aut cum rege tenent et fidem suam cum iudice in palatio conservant conponat omnes res ipsas cui eas tulerit in actogild… |
| Translation |
If anyone raises sedition against the judge of his own district without the king's consent, or commits any evil, or seeks to expel the judge except on command of the king, or if men from one district raise sedition against another district or another judge, or seek to expel him except with the consent of the king: then that man who is at their head shall lose his life and all his property shall revert to the public treasury; moreover, the others who are accomplices with him in that evil shall each pay his wergeld as composition to the royal fisc. If they plunder anyone's house or take property from those men who hold from thc fisc or from the king and keep faith with the fisc and with their judges, those who commit such a deed shall pay as a composition eightfold the value of all those properties to him from whom they took them…
(Emended from K. Fischer-Drew, trans., The Lombard Laws (1973), p. 161) |
| Summary |
Liutprand, No. 35 addresses the situation where sedition is raised against a judge or judicial district (civitas) without royal permission, setting an unemendable death penalty for the leader of the group, and with all his property being taken by the public fisc, while each participant in the sedition must also pay their wergild to the royal fisc. If houses (casam) are plundered in the process, then that which was taken must be returned in actogild, that is eightfold. |
| Quotation source |
MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), p. 124 |
| Temporal Coverage |
723 - 723 |
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| Comment |
The Liutprand Leges Anno XI form part of the Leges Liutprandi [Text, ID:1098] and in turn are part of the collected Edictus Langobardorum [Text, ID:984]. |
