Mercian law

Mercian law
A major body of Anglo-Saxon customs that, along with the Dane law and the West Saxon law, continued to constitute the law in England in the days immediately following the Norman Conquest.

Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.


mercian law
A major body of Anglo-Saxon customs that, along with the Dane law and the West Saxon law, continued to constitute the law in England in the days immediately following the Norman Conquest.

Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.

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