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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...because it was only "jus unius populi." It was attempted to sustain it by showing its concord with the two bodies of universal law, and by reviving the legend that the "Sachsenspiegel" rested on a charter of Charles the Great and the Saxon feudal law rested on statutes of Frederick Barbarossa. Hardly a generation after the composition of the "Sachsenspiegel," we already see the beginning of a literary movement directed to preparing, through expositions fusing the native law with the foreign, law-books that could claim a common authority throughout all Germany. About the time of the Interregnum, the " Sachsenspiegel " was translated into high German; its unknown translator, from southern Germany, attempted by interpolations to give it the form of a source valid for all the Germanic racial branches. He called his work the Mirrorof the German People (" Spiegel deutscher Leute "). The author lays claim to scientific training; he does not (he says) content himself with his personal legal experience, but presents the law for Germany as the kings have conferred it and the masters of the law (namely, the Roman jurists) have taught it. Of Roman law there is, indeed, only little to be found in the work; but it is significant to find here, so early and so clearly expressed, the idea that the Roman law is a part of that which is valid throughout Germany. This "Deutschenspiegel" seems to have attained but slight currency, and has come down to us in but one manuscript. But the path marked by it was followed, in the early years of the reign of Rudolf I (in 1275?), by the unknown author of the Swabian Mirror (" Schwabenspiegel "). He made use of the earlier work, increasing the range of the written sourc...