| Keywords |
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| ID |
5384 |
| Text |
Liutprand Leges Anni XIX (731 - 731) Liutprand |
| Quotation |
Superstitiosae et vanae contentiones assidue nostram inpulsare clementiam non cessant. Et dum ad resecandas intentiones inproborum noster intenderer animus quicquid nostris iudicibus vel reliquis Langobardis recta conparuerunt… |
| Translation |
Our clemency is constantly beseeched by the unceasing controversies of the superstitious and vain. Since it is our heartfelt purpose to restrain the contentions of evildoers, that which has seemed proper to our judges and to the rest of our Lombards has been decreed by us in the foregoing addition to the laws…
(Emended from K. Fischer-Drew, trans., The Lombard Laws (1973), p. 194) |
| Summary |
The Prologue to Liutprand’s laws from the nineteenth year of his reign (731 CE), do not explicitly name him as the law-giver, and express the unceasing activities of addressing controversial cases and developing new laws. The involvement of the judges in the law-making is noted, as is the date of promulgation. |
| Quotation source |
MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), p. 155 |
| Temporal Coverage |
731 - 731 |
| Associated use case(s) |
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| Comment |
The Liutprand Leges Anno XIX form part of the Leges Liutprandi [Text, ID:1098] and in turn are part of the collected Edictus Langobardorum [Text, ID:984]. |
