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INTBODCOTION.
Finnland. Like Västmanna- and Södermannalagen it has been influenced
considerably by Uplandslagen.
9. Smålandslagen was the law of Småland. Only the chnrch code remains.
The rest has been lost.
10. Nerikelagen, the law of Nerike,’ and
11. Yärmlandslagen, the law of Värmland, are both lost, but were quoted
by Bureus in the sixteenth century.
12. Bjärköarätten shows us the law of the city of Lödöse in
Västergötland during the early middle ages. The manuscript dates from the first part
of the fourteenth century.
13. Söderköpingsrfitten dates from the first part of the fourteenth
century. All is lost except a few excerpts found in the works of Burens.
14. Visby städs och sjörätt is also lost.
15. Magnus Eriksons Landslag was the first attempt at a general law for
the whole country. At about 1350 it was accepted in Upland and
Östergötland, but in Västergötland not till 1388. By the beginning of the fifteenth
century it was accepted by all the different states. On the initiative of the
above named king, a general law for cities was also worked out and accepted
by the close of the fourteenth century.
16. Kristoffers landslag is the name of the second general law. It received
royal sanction in 1442. It took considerable time, however, before this law
was able to supercede the general law of Magnus Erikson. It was not
generally accepted until in the sixteenth century.
Beside the laws above mentioned there were also quite a few Gårdsrätter,
Gillestadgar and Edsörelagar. Gårdsrätterna — Estate-laws — had reference
to the king’s personal servants and later even to the army. Gillestadgarna
were bylaws for certain societies, and Edsörelagarna were sporadic attempts
at general legislation for the whole country.
Dr. C. J. Schlyter has attained fame and done his country a praiseworthy
service by compiling the several old laws of Sweden into one vast work of
thirteen large volumes, entitled: Sveriges Gamla Lagar. He devoted his whole
life to this work. The first volume appeared in 1827 and the last in 1877. He
compared fifteen parchment manuscripts, five manuscripts on paper, and
beside this nine old copies of one or the other of the above named manuscripts,
together with all works before his time on this subject.
Äldre V&stgStalagen. The Elder Law of the Westgoths. Of all the laws of
Sweden, Den Äldre Västgötalagen (the elder law of the Westgoths) is the
oldest. The manuscript is found in the Royal Library at Stockholm, and is
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