| Keywords |
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| ID |
5420 |
| Text |
Ahistulfi Legis anno I (750 - 750) Aistulf |
| Quotation |
Et hoc item de illis hominibus qui negotium fecerint sine voluntate regis cum Romano homine si fuerit iudex qui hoc facere presumpserit conponat widrigild suum et honorem suum amittat si fuerit arimannus homo amittat res suas et vadat decalvatus clamandum sic patiatur qui contra voluntatem regis cum Romano homine negotium fecerit quando lites habemus… |
| Translation |
Let this be observed concerning those men who conduct business with a Roman without the king's consent: if it was a judge who presumed to do this, he shall pay his widrigild [wergeld] as composition and shall lose his position of honor. If it was an arimannus [freeman], he shall lose his property and, having been shaved, he must go about crying out: "Those who conduct business with a Roman contrary to the king's wish, as long as the Romans are our enemies, suffer thus"…
(Emended from K. Fischer-Drew, trans., The Lombard Laws (1973), pp. 228-29) |
| Summary |
Aistulf, No. 4 establishes punishment for the person who conducts busines with a Roman without Royal consent. In the case of a judge, the law sets the composition as equal to his wergild alongside the loss of the official position; while for an arimannus [freeman], the punishment is loss of all his property, be shaved and forced to go about in public proclaiming his wrongdoing. |
| Quotation source |
MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), p. 196 |
| Temporal Coverage |
750 - 750 |
| Associated use case(s) |
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| Comment |
The Ahistulfi Leges (I) form part of the Leges Ahistulfi [Text, ID:1119] and in turn are part of the collected Edictus Langobardorum [Text, ID:984]. |
