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Graduate Record 2021-2022 
    
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Graduate Record 2021-2022 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

LAW 7204 - Barbarian Law

Effective Start Date: 04/30/2021
In this course, we will study the law codes of the Salian Franks (France), the Lombards (northern Italy), and the Anglo-Saxons (England). We will examine, inter alia, the rules for using fixed payments to buy off the blood feud, the rules for ownership and transfer of property, the rules concerning social status and familial obligations, and the peculiar procedures for deciding lawsuits (trial by ordeal, trial by compurgation, and trial by combat.

Credits: 3
Grading Basis: Graded