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tribes which became permanently located within the territory 

 which was fully under the dominion of the Roman civilization 

 adopted the institutions, the language, and the laws which they 

 found, accepting them gradually as substitutes for their own. The 

 Teutonic invasion therefore had little permanent effect on the laws 

 or institutions of the peoples of Southern Europe. 



But in Northern Europe the situation was entirely different. 



The Salic Law which the Franks brought with them into territory 



which had been only partially subjected to the Roman 



civilization was wholly Teutonic and showed slight, if 



any, traces of Roman influence. It remained the law of France, 



substantially unaffected by the civil law, until the study of the 



Corpus Juris extended the knowledge of the Roman law into that 



region. 



In Germany there was from the earliest time of which we have 

 any definite historical record a body of customary law represented 

 Sachsen- by the Sachsenspiegel and Schwabenspiegel, first re- 

 spiegel. duced to written form in the thirteenth century, which 

 remained long unaffected by the Roman law. And wholly Teutonic 

 also in origin and development was the body of the law of the Anglo- 

 Saxons, the first historical monument of which may be said to be the 

 Dooms of Alfred. 



The differentiation which took place between the development 

 of Teutonic civilization in the north of Europe and a similar develop- 

 Anglo- ment in England must be largely attributed to the 

 Saxons. fact that the rulers of the Franks and other Teutonic 

 tribes were attempting to extend and maintain their authority over 

 the Romanized people of Southern Europe, and in doing so were 

 brought into closer contact with the Romans than the Anglo-Saxons 

 who had gone into England and there developed a civilization free 

 from external complications until it had reached such a stage that 

 it could not be fundamentally affected by them. 



The Teutonic codes, if they may be designated by a name which 

 is misleading, as suggesting a stage of development which had not 

 Teutonic ve t been reached, that is, the Salic law, the Sachsen- 

 Codesnot spiegel, and the laws of the Anglo-Saxons are made up 

 Jurispru- largely of provisions as to the compensation to be paid 

 dence. f or injuries of various kinds to person and property. 



They suggest no conception of systematic jurisprudence; but they 

 show the general prevalence throughout Northern Europe and Eng- 

 land of a condition of society which culminated in the feudal 

 system. Indeed, they may with some propriety be called the feudal 

 codes as distinct from the Latin codes. 



The history of modern jurisprudence may be arranged under four 

 divisions. That of Eastern Europe, including Russia and Turkey, 



