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  • Euric
    Germanic law
    / Rise of feudal and monarchial states

    …as tenants of a so-called feud, or fee. Each feudal lord held a court for his tenants in which he applied the same law to all of the tenants, irrespective of their racial or national origin. Thus the old Germanic personal principle was abandoned in favour of the territorial principle,…

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    …as tenants of a so-called feud, or fee. Each feudal lord held a court for his tenants in which he applied the same law to all of the tenants, irrespective of their racial or national origin. Thus the old Germanic personal principle was abandoned in favour of the territorial principle,…

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