Frisian Land Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Freeska Landriucht

Han Nijdam, Ph.D. (2008), Leiden University, is researcher for Old Frisian at the Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden.He has published on medieval Frisia and medieval Frisian law, including Wat is Recht? De receptie van Oudfries recht in de Groninger Ommelanden in de 15e en 16e eeuw (Bornmeer, 2018). Jan Hallebeek, Ph.D. (1986), Utrecht University, is professor emeritus of Legal History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and extraordinary professor on ‘Ancient structures of the Catholic Church’ at Utrecht University (1997-2006). He has published on medieval Roman and Canon law and early modern scholasticism, including The Concept of Unjust Enrichment in Late Scholasticism (1996). Hylkje de Jong, Ph.D. (2008), Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, is Professor of Legal History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She has published on the reception of Roman law in Frisia and on Byzantine law, including Ἐντολή (mandatum) in den Basiliken (Brill, 2019).

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Introduction



Preface to the Edition and Translation of the Old Frisian Main Text

 Han Nijdam

 1 Medieval Frisia

 2 A Chronological Overview of the Classical Old Frisian Law Texts

 3 Family and Inheritance

 4 The Farm or Estate

 5 The Church

 6 Legal Procedure in Classical Old Frisian Law

 7 The Book

 8 A Short Introduction to the Individual Texts

 9 Principles Underlying the Edition and Translation



Preface to the Edition and Translation of the Gloss

 Jan Hallebeek and Hylkje de Jong

 1 Introduction: Glosses

 2 Learned Law: Canon Law and Roman Law

 3 The Gloss to the Frisian Land Law

 4 Allegations

 5 References to Scholarly Literature

 6 Relation of the Gloss to the Main Text of the Frisian Land Law

 7 Author and Date of the Gloss

 8 Principles Underlying the Edition and Translation



Bibliography



Text and Translation



 I: Prologue

 II: What Is Law?

 III: The Older Skelta Law

 IV: Of the Two Kings Charles and Radbod

 V: The Statutes of Magnus

 VI: The Seventeen Statutes

 VII: Prologue to the Seventeen Statutes and Twenty-Four Land Laws

 VIII: The Twenty-Four Land Laws

 IX: The Eight Provisions

 X: Exceptions to the 17th Statute

 XI: The Synodical Law of Central Frisia

 XII: The Younger Skelta Law

 XIII: The Statutes of the Five Districts

 XIV: The Calculated Tariffs

 XV: Currency Conversion and Wergilds

 XVI: The Book of Emperor Rudolf

 XVII: Market Law

 XVIII: Unmendable Crimes

 XIX: On Forceful Robberies

 XX: The Statutes of Opstalsbam

 XXI: A Treatise on the Seven Sealands

Glossary of Untranslated Old Frisian Terms

Index of Allegations in the Glosses