beheading criminals and the public display of their severed heads Comparative customary law systems Celtic law Early Irish law (Ireland) Welsh Law (Wales) Leges inter Brettos et Scottos (Laws of the Brets and Scots) (Scotland) References Editions Felix Liebermann, Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen (Halle, 1903–1916), 3 vols. with translations, notes and commentary is indispensable. PDFs available online vol. 1 (edition and translation) vol. 2. Or separately, first half (dictionary) and second half (glossary) vol. 3 (commentary) Lisi Oliver, The Beginnings of English Law (Toronto, 2002), text, translation, and commentary for the laws of Aethelbert, Hlohere, Eadric, and Wihtred. Reinhold Schmid, Gesetze der Angelsachsen (2nd ed., Leipzig, 1858), full glossary. Benjamin Thorpe, Ancient Laws and Institutes of England (1840), not very trustworthy. Domesday Book, i. ii. (Rec. Comm.); Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici, i.-vi. ed. J. M. Kemble (1839–1848); Cartularium Saxonicum (up to 940), ed. Walter de Gray Birch (1885–1893); John Earle, A Hand-book to the Land Charters, and other Saxonic Documents. (Oxford, 1888); Benjamin Thorpe, Diplomatarium Anglicum aevi Saxonici: a collection of English charters ... with a translation of the Anglo-Saxon (London, 1865) Facsimiles of Ancient Charters, edited by the Ordnance Survey and by the British Museum; Arthur West Haddan and William Stubbs, Councils of Great Britain, i.-iii. (Oxford, 1869–1878). Agnes J. Robertson, The Laws of the Kings of England from Edmund to Henry I (Cambridge, 1925) Modern works Konrad Maurer, Über Angelsachsische Rechtsverhaltnisse, Kritische Ueberschau (Munich, 1853 ff.), account of the history of Anglo-Saxon law; Essays on Anglo-Saxon Law, by H. Adams, H. C. Lodge, J. L. Laughlin and E. Young (1876); J. M. Kemble, Saxons in England; F. Palgrave, History of the English Commonwealth; William Stubbs, Constitutional History of England, i.; Sir Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland, History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I, (1895) H. Brunner, Zur Rechtsgeschichte der römisch-germanischen Urkunde (1880); Sir Frederick Pollock, The King's Peace (Oxford Lectures); Frederic Seebohm, The English Village Community; Frederic Seebohm, Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law; Heinrich Marquardsen, Haft und Burgschaft im Angelsachsischen Recht; Hermann Jastrow, Über die Strafrechtliche Stellung der Sklaven, Otto von Gierke's Untersuchungen, i.; J. C. H. R. Steenstrup, Normannerne, iv.; F. W. Maitland, Domesday and Beyond (Cambridge, 1897); H. M. Chadwick, Studies on Anglo-Saxon Institutions (1905); Charles E. Tucker, Jr., "Anglo-Saxon Law: Its Development and Impact on the English Legal System" (USAFA Journal of Legal Studies, 1991) P. Vinogradoff, "Folcland" in the English