Criminal Penalty Quotes
To put the fine in perspective 200 shillings was the penalty for poisoning someone whereas 15 shillings was the penalty for trespassing and trampling someone’s crops. Even slandering a woman’s chastity carried a very severe penalty. The Salic Law is one of the very few documentations of the Merovingian dynasty.
This is the most formalized and sophisticated compendium of laws of the so-called “barbaric peoples” of Europe. The compilation was in many ways a documentation of the traditional laws of the Visigoths that had evolved over hundreds of years. In this case, the principle was an old ancient Roman principle—see {617205}
