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| ID |
5350 |
| Text |
Liutprand Leges Anni XIII (725 - 725) Liutprand |
| Quotation |
Ego Liutprand in Christi nomine rex gentis Langobardorum anno regni mei tertio decimo diae Kalendarum Martiarum indictione octaba dum rememorassem quod venientis homenis nostri in presentia nostra adduxerunt causus inter se altercantes quae nec per usum fuimus certi ad terminandum nec in edicti corpore ante insertae proinde providimus eas usque ad diem supra scriptum Kalendarum Martiarum suspendere dum usque nostri ad nos coniungere iudecis et una cum ipsis certum ibi terminum deberemus inponere unde postea nulla essit intentio. |
| Translation |
In the name of Christ, I, Liutprand, king of the Lombard nation, in the thirteenth year of my reign, on the first day of March in the eighth indiction; for I remember that men have come into our presence and have brought cases in controversy among themselves which we have not been certain how to adjudicate according to custom and provisions for which have not been included before in the body of our lawbook: therefore we suspended these matters until the abovementioned first day of March so that we, in association with our judges and together with them, might act to establish a certain end to such affairs that there may be no controversy afterwards.
(Emended from K. Fischer-Drew, trans., The Lombard Laws (1973), pp. 171-72) |
| Summary |
The prologue to Liutprand’s laws from the thirteenth year of his reign (725 CE) begin by naming him as king in the name of Christ, and then outlining the motivations for law-giving on acount of uncertainty in how certain cases should be judged. In this prologue, only the judges are named as having contributed to the legal content. |
| Quotation source |
MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), pp. 133-34 |
| Temporal Coverage |
725 - 725 |
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| Comment |
The Liutprand Leges Anno XIII form part of the Leges Liutprandi [Text, ID:1098] and in turn are part of the collected Edictus Langobardorum [Text, ID:984]. |
