Arminius then spent his youth in Rome as a hostage, where he had received a military education, and even been given the rank of Germanic law.
22.
Germanic law was familiar with the idea that a man who holds property on account of, or to the use of another is bound to fulfill his trust.
23.
Marriage between the Continental peoples under early Germanic law bore a close resemblance to that of the " lobolo " marriage in terms of the customary law of South African indigenous peoples.
24.
As a relic of Germanic Law, the cruentation, an ordeal where the corpse of the victim was supposed to start bleeding in the presence of the murderer, was used until the early 17th century.
25.
Most strikingly, the King of Heaven issues His summons ( " kipannit daz mahal " ), using a technical expression rooted in Germanic law, but relevant also to contemporary politics ( Finger, 90ff . ).
26.
It has been suggested that their claims to the throne were bolstered by genealogical invention because although they shared the same mother, �sta Gudbrandsdatter, the mother's descent was unimportant in inheritance according to traditional Germanic law.
27.
In that year, the scholar Joannis Basilius Herold made a compilation of all Germanic laws from the time of Charlemagne, " Originum ac Germanicarum Antiquitatum Libri . . . ", printed by Heinrich Petri of Basel.
28.
Most likely, access rights were at least partially based on kinship / descent, as this is the case not only in the early medieval Irish and Welsh laws, but also in the neighbouring Roman and Germanic laws.
29.
Most likely, they could be supported by similar oaths sworn by their kinsmen, retainers, clients or whoever wanted to support them, as character-witnesses for the original plaintiff or defendant, quite comparable to the procedure in early medieval Irish, Welsh and Germanic laws.
30.
Germanic law was codified in writing under the influence of Roman law; previously it was held in the memory of designated individuals who acted as judges in confrontations and meted out justice according to customary rote, based on careful memorization of precedent.
