| Keywords |
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| ID |
5330 |
| Text |
Liutprand Leges Anni XI (723 - 723) Liutprand |
| Quotation |
Si quis liberum hominem foris provincia vinderit conponat wirigild eius tamquam si eum occidisset. |
| Translation |
If anyone sells a freeman outside the country he shall pay as composition the same wergeld'as if he had killed him.
(Emended from K. Fischer-Drew, trans., The Lombard Laws (1973), p. 165) |
| Summary |
Liutprand, No. 48 establishes that if a freeman is sold outside of the country, that is he is enslaved by being sold abroad, then composition should be paid equal to his widrigild (wergild) (presumably to his heirs or him if he somehow returns) as if he had been killed. |
| Quotation source |
MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), p. 127 |
| Temporal Coverage |
723 - 723 |
| Associated use case(s) |
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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]. |
