Clan lawmen {law-speaker} knew oral law, advised at trials, and supervised trials.
German tribe members were always under tribe's law {personal law}. If two people from different tribes disputed, they used laws of tribe of person with dominant interest.
Marriage required a money gift {dowry}|.
German law, collected by Romans, was mainly criminal law, with some tort law and few procedures. German law used principle of "an eye for an eye" {Wergild}. Family or clan exacted revenge, not individual. Most trials were about torts. Disputants themselves did pleadings. For accidental injury, offender paid injured person. German law did not recognize private real property. With no commercial laws, visiting traders needed patron's protection. Marriage was sacred and was mostly monogamous. Marriage required a money dowry and gift exchange.
German clan assemblies began.
University students organized into groups {corps, law}.
German common law was not Saxon but Roman law.
Martini lived 1726 to 1800. Zeiller lived 1751 to 1828. Maria Theresa of Holy Roman Empire asked for code of private law based on Roman law [1753]. Codex Theresianus [1866] was long and ambiguous.
He lived 1787 to 1867. His writings about criminal procedure resulted in German-law reforms.
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