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In the early days when the Great West of the United States was just being opened up and when society there was in a very crude state, a horse thief was regularly hanged; but murder was hardly a fault. Lex Burgundionum, 47, 1 and 2. The guilty man was put to death. Lex Salica, Tit., 23. Id, Tit., 28. Lex Baiuvariorum, Tit., xiii, 2.

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Kings have always had a little way of doing as they pleased. See the anecdote of King Cusupald in Paulus' Hist. For all this see Lex Burgundionum, 34, 1-4. For all these, see Lex Wisigothorum, iii, 6, 1 and 2. Capitula Addita ad Legem Alemannorum, 30. Lex Baiuvariorum, vii, 14. Lex Ripuariorum, Tit., 35. Lex Baiuvariorum, vii. Lex Alemannorum, 51, 1.

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Lex Angliorum et Werinorum, x, 2: si libera femina sine voluntate patris aut tutoris cuilibet nupserit, perdat omnem substantiam quam habuit vel habere debuit. Reply of a bishop quoted by Gregory of Tours, 9, 33: quia sine consilio parentum eam coniugio copulasti, non erit uxor tua. Lex Burgundionum: Add., 14. cf.

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Lex Baiuvariorum, xiv, 9, 1. Ibid., xiv, 6. For all this, see Lex Burgundionum, 24 and 62 and 74. Lex Wisigothorum, iv, Tit. 3. Lex Baiuvariorum, 14. Lex Alemannorum, 55 and 56. Lex Wisigothorum, iii, 3, 1. Lex Saxonum, iv.

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They left to the provincials the civil law of Rome, and even codified it to guard against unauthorised innovations; the Lex Romana Burgundionum and the Visigothic Breviarium Alarici are still extant as memorials of this policy.

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Lex Burgundionum, Add. primum, xiii: quaecumque mulier Burgundia vel Romana voluntate sua ad maritum ambulaverit, iubemus ut maritus ipse de facultate ipsius mulieris, sicut in eam habet potestatem, ita et de rebus suis habeat.

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"Giselher" is the historical "Gislaharius". Although mentioned by the "Lex Burgundionum" as one of the Burgundian kings, he does not appear in the early Norse version, or in other poems dealing with these persons, such as the "Waltharius", the "Rabenschlacht", the "Rosengarten", etc., and was probably introduced at a late date into the saga.

- The Nibelungenlied

Edictum Rotharis, 188: si puella libera aut vidua sine voluntate parentum ad maritum ambulaverit, liberum tamen, tunc maritus, qui eam acceperit uxorem, componat pro anagrip solidos XX et propter faidam alios XX. Lex Wisigothorum, iii, 2, 2. Ibid., iii, 2, 3. Lex Saxonum, vi, I: uxorem ducturus CCC solidos det parentibus eius. See also the lex Burgundionum, 66, I and 2 and 3.

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Cf. lex Wisigothorum, iv, 2, 11: maritus et uxor tunc sibi hereditario iure succedant, quando mulla affinitas usque ad septimum gradum de propinquis eorum vel parentibus inveniri poterit. See also Lex Burgundionum, 14, 1. Lex Saxonum, ix. Lex Ripuariorum, 37, 2. Lex Saxonum, viii. Lex Wisigothorum, iv, 3, 3. Lex Burgundionum 85, 1, and 62, 1. Lex Burgundionum, 42, 1; 62, 1; 74, 1.

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