Germanic law is a scholarly term used to describe a series of commonalities between the various law codes (the Leges Barbarorum, 'laws of the barbarians'...

characters and Latin characters. Grimm's law, also known as the First Germanic Sound Shift, is a set of sound laws describing the Proto-Indo-European (PIE)...

civil law is the group of legal ideas and systems ultimately derived from the Corpus Juris Civilis, but heavily overlain by Napoleonic, Germanic, canonical...

/ / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The Germanic spirant law, or Primärberührung, is a specific historical instance in linguistics...

The Germanic peoples were tribal groups who lived in the north of Europe in Classical Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. In modern scholarship, they...

Proto-Germanic eventually developed from pre-Proto-Germanic into three Germanic branches during the fifth century BC to fifth century AD: West Germanic, East...

Early Germanic culture was the culture of the early Germanic peoples. Largely derived from a synthesis of Proto-Indo-European and indigenous Northern European...

Italy. In the same context, Germanic law is also derisively termed leges barbarorum "barbarian law" etc. The thesis of Germanic kingship appeared in the...

Romano-Germanic describes the conflation of Roman culture with that of various Germanic peoples in areas successively ruled by the Roman Empire and Germanic...

Medieval Scandinavian law, also called North Germanic law, was a subset of Germanic law practiced by North Germanic peoples. It was originally memorized...

The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe,...

of the term in early Germanic law is servus. The thrall represents the lowest of the three-tiered social order of the Germanic peoples, noblemen, freemen...

accordance with Germanic law, rather than ecclesiastical marriage. The word "secular" here should not be interpreted to mean that no context of Germanic religion...

"remuneration for a man", from Proto-Germanic *wira- "man, human" and *geld-a- "retaliation, remuneration". In the south Germanic area, this is the most common...

The Germanic parent language (GPL), also known as Pre-Germanic Indo-European (PreGmc) or Pre-Proto-Germanic (PPG), is the stage of the Germanic branch...

Proto-Germanic itself, and in various Germanic subfamilies and languages. Germanic spirant law Grimm's law Holtzmann's law Sievers' law Verner's law Kluge's...

The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three branches of the Germanic family of languages (the others being the North Germanic and the...

North Germanic peoples, Nordic peoples and in a medieval context Norsemen, were a Germanic linguistic group originating from the Scandinavian Peninsula...

The Burgundians were an early Germanic tribe or group of tribes. They appeared in the middle Rhine region, near the Roman Empire, and were later moved...

Continental Germanic mythology. It was a key element of Germanic paganism. As the Germanic languages developed from Proto-Indo-European language, Germanic mythology...

combining characters and Latin characters. Verner's law describes a historical sound change in the Proto-Germanic language whereby consonants that would usually...

The blood eagle was a method of ritual execution as detailed in late skaldic poetry. According to the two instances mentioned in the Christian sagas, the...

(also wager of battle, trial by battle or judicial duel) was a method of Germanic law to settle accusations in the absence of witnesses or a confession in...

The list of early Germanic peoples is a register of ancient Germanic cultures, tribal groups, and other alliances of Germanic tribes and civilisations...

North Sea Germanic, also known as Ingvaeonic (/ˌɪŋviːˈɒnɪk/ ING-vee-ON-ik), is a postulated grouping of the northern West Germanic languages that consists...

culture Byzantine law Canon law Germanic law Roman law Western culture Tellegen-Couperus, Olga Eveline (1993). A Short History of Roman Law. Psychology Press...

The Germanic substrate hypothesis attempts to explain the purportedly distinctive nature of the Germanic languages within the context of the Indo-European...

generally based on one of four basic systems: civil law, common law, customary law, religious law or combinations of these. However, the legal system...

law dominated the legal practice of many European countries. A legal system, in which Roman law was mixed with elements of canon law and of Germanic custom...

tribal council, and by other names, was a governing assembly in early Germanic society, made up of the free people of the community presided over by a...