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  • Acilian Law on the Right to Recovery of Property Officialy Extorted, 122 B.C.


  • Agrarian Law; 111 B.C.


  • Anglo-Saxon Chronicle


  • Anglo-Saxon Law - Extracts From Early Laws of the English.


  • Assize of Clarendon, 1166


  • The Athenian Constitution


  • The Bull of Pope Adrian IV Empowering Henry II to Conquer Ireland. A.D. 1155


  • Capitulary of Charlemagne Issued in the Year 802


  • Charter of Urso, 44 B.C.


  • Code of Hammurabi


  • Compact between Spain and Portugal, signed by the Catholic Sovereigns at Madrid, May 7, 1495


  • Confirmation of the Charters, 1297


  • Constitutions of Clarendon. 1164


  • Count Palatinate as Judge Over the Kings. Decree of the Nuremberg Diet, November 19, 1274


  • Decree of 1059 Concerning Papal Elections


  • Decree of the Emperor Henry IV Concerning a Truce of God (1085 A.D.)


  • The Dialogue Concerning the Exchequer. circa 1180


  • Documents Relating to the War of the Investitures


  • Edicts of Augustus and Decree of the Senate on the Judicial Process in Cyrene, 64 B.C.


  • The Establishment of the Duchy of Austria; September 17, 1156


  • The Foundation of the University of Heidelberg AD. 1386


  • The Gelnhausen Charter; April 13, 1180 A.D.


  • The Golden Bull of the Emperor Charles IV 1356 A.D.


  • History Of The Britons (Historia Brittonum) by Nennius Translated by J. A. Giles


  • Julian Law on Agrarian Matters, 58(?) B.C.


  • Law of Caesar on Municipalities, 44 B.C.


  • Laws of Richard I (Coeur de Lion) Concerning Crusaders Who Were to Go by Sea. 1189 A.D.


  • Laws of the Kings, 753 - 510 B.C.


  • Magna Carta, 1215


  • The Manner of Holding Parliament


  • The Ordinance of Louis the Pius - Division of the Empire of the Year 817


  • Ordinance of William I, Separating the Spiritual and Temporal Courts.


  • Peace of the Land Established by Frederick Barbarossa Between 1152 and 1157 A.D.


  • The Peace of Venice; 1177


  • The Salic Law


  • Statute of Edward I Concerning the Buying and Selling of Land (Quia Emptores); 1290


  • The Statute of Laborers; 1351


  • Statute of Mortmain; November 15, 1279


  • Statutes of William The Conqueror


  • The Struggle Between Frederick Barbarossa and Alexander III; 1160-1177


  • Treaty at Aix Between Louis II and Charles the Bald Concerning the Division of the Kingdom of Lothar II A.D. 870


  • Treaty between Spain and Portugal concluded at Tordesillas; June 7, 1494


  • The Twelve Tables; 450BC


  • The Vesancon Episode; 1157-1158


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