Note 23 — Chapter III

Professor Emerton gives an excellent account of the Germanic ideas of law in his Introduction, pp. 73–91; see also Henderson, Short History of Germany, pp. 19–21. For examples of the trials, see Translations and Reprints, Vol. IV, No. 4. A philosophical account of the character of the Germans and of the effects of the invasions is given by Adams, Mediæval Civilization, Chapters IV-V.