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For example, Claude de Ferrière commented that "community of goods" ("a partnership between married persons of all personal property, and of all real property acquired during the marriage state") prevailed "throughout all customary France, except
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When the monarchy was forced to take into account the reality in countries that had written laws, in order to avoid any potential subordination with respect to the
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George Mousourakis stated "after the revival of Roman law in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries and the spread of its study from
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broke up into many different systems, according to the territories, some extremely small, won by princes and prelates.
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Some Remarks upon the French Tenure of "Franc Aleu Roturier", and on its relation to the feudal and other tenures
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came to be accepted in southern France as the living law of the land", even though, as emphasized by
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did develop in those southern regions, and they often contradicted Roman law." "Prior to this, the
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declared that in travelling through France one changed the laws as often as one changed horses.
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were abolished. However, French customary law was incorporated into the substance of the code.
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in 1607. Further development of customary law had been halted by the late 16th century.
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published a work of 958 legal maxims developed over a period of 40 years distilling the
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his intention of resuming this design, and he caused a code of law to be prepared, and
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had formed the idea of using throughout his realm one custom, one weight, one measure.
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had been paramount. Roughly speaking, the line separating the two areas was the river
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In the north existed a variety of customs "with a Frankish-Germanic character."
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A History of Law in Europe: From the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
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Comparative Law and Legal Traditions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
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followed the same example. But these efforts were wholly lost. In the time of
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Roman law was admitted, but only as a local custom, not as imperial law.
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in the south followed pre-Justinian Roman law, based primarily on the
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by the French kings and their vassals, especially in the lands of the
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about specific examples of customary laws, especially local.
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The Historical and Institutional Context of Roman Law
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established in 1312, with an ordinance, that in the
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