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    Cyfraith Hywel (Welsh: [ˈkəvraiθ ˈhəwɛl]; Laws of Hywel), also known as Welsh law (Latin: Leges Walliæ), was the system of law practised in medieval Wales...
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  • lists all manuscripts known to contain versions of the Cyfraith Hywel first codified by Hywel Dda in the mid 10th century. Black Book of Chirk Peniarth...
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    as the Laws of Hywel Dda (Welsh: Cyfraith Hywel). None of the law manuscripts can be dated to Hywel's time, but Hywel's name is mentioned in the prologues...
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    Æthelstan's court. Hywel studied the English legal system and reformed Welsh law in his own realms (later called the Cyfraith Hywel or "Laws of Hywel"), and when...
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  • important medieval manuscripts were written in Latin only, e.g. the Cyfraith Hywel. The documentation of Welsh royalty begins after the departure of the...
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    in Peniarth MS.37, a 14th-century copy of the Gwentian code of the Cyfraith Hywel (Welsh law), which (according to Peter Bartrum) shows that it was a...
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    first time in almost 500 years that Wales has had its own laws, since Cyfraith Hywel, a version of Celtic law, was abolished and replaced by English law...
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    Whitland around 930 by Hywel Dda, king of most of Wales between 942 and his death in 950. The 'law of Hywel Dda' (Welsh: Cyfraith Hywel), as it became known...
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    law that applied in medieval Wales, known as Cyfraith Hywel (the law of Hywel, after the Welsh king Hywel Dda). It includes a copy of the laws of court...
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    separate legal jurisprudence based on the well-established laws of Cyfraith Hywel, and by the increasingly sophisticated court of the House of Aberffraw...
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    written shortly after the Hijra (622). In Wales, the Cyfraith Hywel (Law of Hywel) was codified by Hywel Dda c. 942–950. It served as the main law code in...
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    compensations (such as the Galanas). Carucates are found throughout the Cyfraith Hywel (Law's of Hywel Dda). In 1086, the Domesday Book records a number of entries...
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    the Laws in Wales Acts between 1535 and 1542, English law replaced Cyfraith Hywel (Welsh medieval law), and the Welsh principality and Marches were integrated...
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    greater portion of Gwynedd in accordance with Welsh law, the Cyfraith Hywel, the Laws of Hywel; and became known as Owain Gwynedd to differentiate him from...
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    a number of other ancient manuscripts, including early texts of the Cyfraith Hywel and by Beirdd yr Uchelwyr (the Poets of the Nobility). The manuscripts...
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    Llywelyn that his grievance would not be heard, as Llywelyn's terms of Cyfraith Hywel (Welsh law code) were unreasonable in a contemporary setting. However...
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  • Talmudic law Tikanga Māori Urf (Arab world/Islamic law) Ülüş system Cyfraith Hywel (Wales) Xeer (Somalia) Usages of Barcelona (Catalonia) Usos y costumbres...
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    reformation of bardic schools; and the continued development of Cyfraith Hywel ('The Law of Hywel'; that is, medieval Welsh law). All three of these further...
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    (Powell, 1584). The Welsh areas were subject to the Laws of Hywel Dda (Cyfraith Hywel), while Swansea was governed by Anglo-Norman overlords, who granted...
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    jointly with Stephen J. Williams Cyfreithiau Hywel Dda yn ôl Llyfr Blegywryd, a text on Cyfraith Hywel, the medieval Welsh law), modern Greek, and Portuguese...
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    separate legal jurisprudence based on the well-established laws of Cyfraith Hywel, and the increasingly sophisticated court of the Aberffraw dynasty....
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    sanctuary . History of English law Government in Norman and Angevin England Cyfraith Hywel (Wales) Early Irish law Leges inter Brettos et Scottos (Scotland) Baker...
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    mid-10th century, when the laws were codified during the reign of Hywel Dda. The Cyfraith Hywel would become the most well-known and widely-adopted Welsh legal...
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    Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313336355. "Women, Linen and Gender in the Cyfraith Hywel Dda – Laidlaw Scholarships". laidlawscholarships.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk...
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  • Library of Wales in the Peniarth Manuscripts Collection. "Peniarth 164". Cyfraith Hywel. Retrieved 27 November 2015. Roberts, S. E., ‘Law Texts and their Sources...
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    issues, as an aspect of proposed further Welsh devolution. Cyfraith Hywel or "Laws of Hywel Dda" was a system of medieval Welsh Law that was exercised...
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  • Celtic laws, some of which are historically attested (see Brehon law, Cyfraith Hywel), evolved, it is unlikely that anything like 'original Celtic law' (or...
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    Gwydir at that time under the native succession law of Kings laid out in Cyfraith Hywel as descendants of one of the surviving senior lineages of the Welsh...
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  • English 'Cleopatra Glossaries' A.xiv Bernard Silvestris, Cosmographia; Cyfraith Hywel, Cyfnerth Redaction A.xvi Adamus Murimuthensis, Chronicon Sui Temporis...
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  • reformation of bardic schools, and the continued development of Cyfraith Hywel (The Law of Hywel, or Welsh law); all three of which further contributed to the...
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