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Contents: Beginning in the fifth century with a dual system which recognized Roman law for Romans and Germanic law for the ruling people, the principle of personality was extended under Frankish rule until it included the majority of Germanic tribes. So far as the author is aware, the only study devoted to the subject was published in a French journal in 1894.

Reviews

Dr. Guterman has written a remarkable book on the transition from the personality of law to the territoriality of law in the Middle Ages... Dr. Guterman's work is scholarly, but notwithstanding, also interesting and absorbing. The book reflects his unique ability to make legal history a subject which delighted his students... (Milton A. Silverman, New York Law School) One of the most important aspects of life in the early Middles Ages...was the concept of the personality of law...Dr. Guterman has presented us with perhaps the finest and most detailed account of this concept. (Howard L. Adelson, Graduate Center of the City University of New York)