Cóic Conara Fugill

Cóic Conara Fugill (Old Irish for "Five paths to judgement") is a short early Irish legal tract dealing with court procedure. It was composed in the 8th or 9th century, and is the only early Irish legal tract to describe how a litigant could put his case before a judge. That makes it a rare window onto the practical steps of bringing a suit in the early Irish legal system, rather than the substantive rules on fines and status that fill most surviving tracts. The system it describes seems to have no longer been in force by the 10th or 11th century CE, so the text preserves a procedure that had already lapsed within a few generations of its composition.