Excerpt from Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law: Being an Essay Supplemental to (1) 'The English Village Community' (2) 'The Tribal System in Wales' Next are examined the traces of tribal custom in the laws of the Salic and Ripuarian Franks and of the tribes conquered by the Merovingian Kings. Separate con sideration is then given to the laws of the tribes con quered by Charlemagne. The earliest Norse and Scanian laws next claim a full share of attention for, although much later in date than the others, they exhibit earlier conditions of tribal custom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.