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How many times does it happen that five men walk together or are seated together and that not one has the same law as another of his brothers. In these words Agobard of Lyons in 817 describes the culmination of the personal law system that followed the establishment of the Germanic kingdoms in the fifth century. Out of the coalescence of Roman and Germanic legal traditions thus promoted by the personal law system, and the subsequent growth of the territorial principle, which replaced the personal law principle, were born the juridical elements in modern Civil and Common Law systems.

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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)

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