Stelle … Et ipse postea qui iurare debet h...; (Liutprand Leges Anni XII, MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), p. 132) [5336]

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Text Liutprand Leges Anni XII (724 - 724) Liutprand
Quotation … Et ipse postea qui iurare debet habeat spatium noctis duodecim qui prope sunt et qui de longinquo sunt quomodo sunt de tuscia vel de austria noctis viginti quattuor et querat alium sacramentalem quem in loco ipsius ponat et sic sacramentum deducat sic wadia dedit…
Translation … He who is to swear shall then have twelve nights in the case of those who are near-twenty-four nights for those who are at a distance somewhere in Tuscany or Austria-to seek another oathhelper whom he can put in the place of that one [who refused to swear], and he may thus provide the oath for which he had given pledges… (Emended from K. Fischer-Drew, trans., The Lombard Laws (1973), p. 170)
Summary Liutprand, No. 61 addresses the situation when an oathhelper withdraws from an oath, demanding that they must give their reasons – and the legal processes if they cannot or will not explain why – and then gives a time limit for the person who is to swear the oath to find a replacement oathhelper: twelve nights if they live near (i.e. in Neustria), or twenty-four nights if they live further away, in Austria or Tuscany.
Quotation source MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), p. 132
Temporal Coverage 724 - 724
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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].