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| ID |
5538 |
| Text |
Liutprand Leges Anni XVI (728 - 728) Liutprand |
| Quotation |
Si quis langobardus habuerit filium masculinum legetimum unum aut filia legetimam unam aut plures et antequam eam de maritum tradat ad mortem venerit potestatam habeat ad filiam suam per cartola donationis si voluerit usque ad quartum portionem de rebus suis iudicare si iudicaverit stabliem permaneat… Si vero pater viventem se eas ad maritum dederit ordinet eas iuxta legem qualiter voluerit. |
| Translation |
If any Lombard has a legitimate son and a legitimate daughter, or more, and he dies before they are handed over in marriage, he has the right to donate by charter to his daughter up to a quarter of his property. If he does this it shall be valid… If while living the father gives them in marriage, he shall provide for them according to the law as he chooses.
(Emended from K. Fischer-Drew, trans., The Lombard Laws (1973), pp. 188-89) |
| Summary |
Liutprand, No. 102 establishes that a Lombard man with legitimate sons and legitimate, unmarried daughters, may transfer property to the daughters before his death. If he has one son, then he may transfer up to a quarter of his property to the daughter(s), if he has two sons up to a seventh of his property, and so forth. The law then concludes by stating that, if the daughters are already married while he is still alive then he may provide for them as he wishes, as long as it is done according to the law. |
| Quotation source |
MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), p. 149 |
| Temporal Coverage |
728 - 728 |
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| Comment |
The Liutprand Leges Anno XVI form part of the Leges Liutprandi [Text, ID:1098] and in turn are part of the collected Edictus Langobardorum [Text, ID:984]. |
