Thread 17932195

How did Germany function with so many different codes? Were there ever any cases where contradictory laws resulted in legal chaos?

>>17932195 (OP)
Meshugge of law codes was the standard in Europe before Napoleon. Medieval states had different law codes for individual cities and split between nobility, commoners, slaves, clergy, natio, etc.
Oxford became a thing because the city wanted to judge student crimes according to their laws but since they were students, they were under the clergical laws (despite not being priests or monks) and that got enough people pissed the university had to move "campus" and everything away from civilisation, far enough that horny, drunk 20-somethings wouldn't start movements against clergical/student classes.

>>17932195 (OP)
Because all of these duchies, principalities, grand duchies and kingdoms were largely self governing
The vast majority of the people in Germany in 1895 never left the region they were born in
Those few who had businesses large enough to have dealings in multiple parts of the kingdom had the resources to deal with legal complexity
>legal chaos
>contradictory laws
This is like on /x/ and /pol/ where people will post close up shots of microprocessors and say something along the lines of "this is complex and I dont understand it, therefore it is proof of alien technology"
They figured shit out, life is complicated

>>17932195 (OP)
Similar to the USA where state laws are also different. The German Empire of 1871 was a federal constitutional monarchy after all.

>>17932195 (OP)
In the (early) middle ages law was tied to a person, so if you were in a foreign city you were judged by the law of your own people/lands.
Over time the nobility consolidated its rule and Roman law was rediscovered and adopted so everybody was subject to the laws of the land.
It just werked (not really).

>>17932195 (OP)
yes so another interesting question is why did deutschland embrace fascism?