Old French law

Old French law, known in French as the Ancien Droit, was the law of the Kingdom of France until the French Revolution. In the north of France lay the pays de coutumes, or customary countries, where customary laws were in force, while in the south lay the pays de droit ecrit, or countries of written law, where Roman law had been paramount. The line separating the two areas ran roughly along the river Loire, from Geneva to the mouth of the Charente, though it was not a firm border between the two categories of law; in both zones the law in force also included elements derived from royal, feudal and canonical sources. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/