Ingoald complained about not only the-illegitimate, as he saw it-seizure of Farfa's lands, but also the application of dubious laws of Roman origin in a zone that followed Lombard law.

Nicholas Everett, "How territorial was Lombard law?"

The Edictum Rothari (also Edictus Rothari or Edictum Rotharis) was the first written compilation of Lombard law, codified and promulgated 22 November 643 by King Rothari.

Lombard law governed Lombards solely, it must be remembered.

Lombard law, as developed by the Italian jurists, was by far the most sophisticated of the early Germanic systems, and some (e.g. Frederick William Maitland) have seen striking similarities between it and early English law.

Historical database of Lombard laws (it.)

Lombard law combined Germanic and Roman traditions.

Proud of their school-taught Roman law, Bologna's jurists maligned the Lombard law that had been systematized at Pavia on the model of the Institutes and Code in the late twelfth century.

Rothari's most lasting act was drawing up the eponymous Edictum Rothari which was the first written codification of Lombard law (it was written in Latin).

These capitularies formed a continuation of the Lombard laws, and are printed as an appendix to these laws by Boretius in the folio edition of the Monumenta Germaniae, Leges, vol.