The Norms of Roman Law and the Concept of Jurisdiction in the French Coutumiers of the 13th Century

The article is devoted to the analysis of the earliest North French collections of customary law of the 13^thcentury: the “Coutume de Touraine-Anjou”, the “Usage d’Orlenois”, the “Conseil à un ami” of Pierre de Fontaines and the “Livre de jostice et de plet”. These codes practically did not attract the attention of modern researchers, but they differ in one curious feature: they have an impressive number of borrowings from the Roman law, or rather from the legislation of Justinian (483—565). The main task of the article was an attempt to understand what purpose these inserts served, how the authors and the compilers of the coutumiers worked with this material and, finally, what relation the Roman legal norms had to the territory to which the customary law of a particular area of the French Kingdom applied. According to the author of the article, the references to Roman law appeared in the texts of the Northern French coutumiers precisely because these latter were compiled during the grandiose judicial transformations of Louis IX the Saint and served primarily to settle the relations of the crown with local lords in the sphere of jurisdiction. The norms of the Roman law not only filled in the gaps in the knowledge of the lawyers of the 13^th century regarding local legal customs, they also turned out to be extremely useful in order to build a clear “vertical of power” in the French Kingdom, which was entering the era of genuine centralization.

Keywords

the French Kingdom of the 13th century, customary law, Roman law, coutumiers, royal power, rights of jurisdiction

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20.06.2021

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18.10.2021

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GOST	Togoeva O. The Norms of Roman Law and the Concept of Jurisdiction in the French Coutumiers of the 13th Century // ISTORIYA – 2021. – V. 12. – Issue 9 (107) [Electronic resource]. URL: https://history.jes.su/S207987840017153-7-1 (circulation date: 28.07.2024). DOI: 10.18254/S207987840017153-7
MLA	Togoeva, Olga "The Norms of Roman Law and the Concept of Jurisdiction in the French Coutumiers of the 13th Century." ISTORIYA 12.9 (107) (2021) DOI: 10.18254/S207987840017153-7
APA	Togoeva O. (2021). The Norms of Roman Law and the Concept of Jurisdiction in the French Coutumiers of the 13th Century. ISTORIYA 12(9 (107)) DOI: 10.18254/S207987840017153-7

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