of the duke, his office, and his military operations. Title III: Stipulates the Agilolfings as the leading noble family from which the rulers of Bavaria are chosen. The other noble families explicitly mentioned are: Anniona, Fagana, Hahilinga, Huosi and Trozza (sometimes also spelled "Drozza"). Title IV: The protection of the free. Under free, the Lex Baiuvariorum makes a distinction between those who are free and those who have been set free. Fines for breaking the law varies depending on the status of the individuals involved: free, set free, and unfree. Title VIII: On Women and their Legal Causes that often occur. First and foremost, addresses the fines and instances of justified homicide incidental to acts of female (free or bonded) infidelity and adulterous acts. Addresses, too, fines incurred by male (free or bonded) misconduct and molestation of women In full, the different titles were ordered as follows: 1. about the clergy or of church law 2. about the Duke and the legal cases that concern him 3. about the sexes and their penance 4. about the free, as they are atoned for 5. about freedmen, how they should be repaid 6. about servants, how they should be repaid 7. about the prohibition of incestuous marriages 8. about women and their legal cases, as they often happen 9. about theft 10. about arson to houses 11. about outrage 12. about destroyed boundary signs 13. about pawns 14. about harmful animals 15. about entrusted [and borrowed] things 16. about sales 17. about witnesses 18. about fighters 19. about the dead and what concerns them 20. about dogs and their penance 21. about hawks and birds 22. about orchards, forests and bees 23. about pigs The laws remained in effect until 1180. The oldest manuscript dates from around 800 and is in the possession of the library of the University of Munich. Notes Sources Fosberry, John trans, Criminal Justice through the Ages, English trans. John Fosberry. Mittelalterliches Kriminalmuseum, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, (1990 Eng. trans. 1993) Merzbacher, Friedrich, "History of German Law Making", Criminal Justice Through the Ages, Mittelalterliches Kriminalmuseum, Rothenburg ob der Taube, Druckerei Schulist, Heilbronn, 1981 Störmer, Wilhelm. Die Baiuwaren: Von der Völkerwanderung bis Tassilo III. pp 49 – 53. Verlag C.H. Beck, 2002, . External links Full text of MGH critical edition (in Latin). Information on the lex Baiuvariorum and its manuscript tradition on the website, A database on Carolingian