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| ID |
5359 |
| Text |
Liutprand Leges Anni XIV (726 - 726) Liutprand |
| Quotation |
…Hoc autem ideo statuimus quia possessio aliorum hominum secundum Langobardorum legem in triginta annos finitur causas quidem regalis unde conpositio expectatur dublicatas statuit decessor noster Rothari rex conponere propterea nobis rectum cum nostris iudicibus conparuit esse ut et in ista causa de posessione duplicentur ipsi anni ut fiant LX… tunc ille cuius possessio est dicat iuratus ad sancta evangelia… Et si hoc facere ausus non fuerit aut forte gastaldius aut actor provare potuerit conpleti sexaginta anni posseio ipsa non sit… |
| Translation |
…We have decreed this since, according to the law of the Lombards, the title of other men is established by possession for thirty years, but King Rothair, our predecessor, established that in royal cases composition should be doubled when applied: therefore it has seemed right to us and to our judges that in this case of possession the time period be doubled also, that is, that it be sixty years… then that one in whose possession it is, having taken oath on the gospels… If he dares not do this, or if the gastald or agent can prove that the property has not been held for sixty years or more and that the property was truly from the public land…
(Emended from K. Fischer-Drew, trans., The Lombard Laws (1973), pp. 177-78) |
| Summary |
Liutprand, No. 78 establishes that a man can claim ownership of public (royal) lands if has been in possession of them without dispute for sixty years. The law directly frames this period as a doubling of the thirty-year duration required for assuming ownership of uncontested private lands. The law then continues to outline the legal process should a person be accused of holding public lands illegally prior to this time limit being met. |
| Quotation source |
MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), pp. 138-39 |
| Temporal Coverage |
643 - 726 |
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| Comment |
The Liutprand Leges Anno XIV form part of the Leges Liutprandi [Text, ID:1098] and in turn are part of the collected Edictus Langobardorum [Text, ID:984]. |
