French customary law and constitutional charters, from the thirteenth century customs of Beauvaisis to the fundamental laws of the Kingdom, the Corsican constitution of 1755 and the charter of 1815, together with the assizes of the crusader states and of Frankish Greece. A document belongs here when its cited article describes a French charter or custom or a crusader assize. It excludes Iberian and Italian sources.
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Assizes of Jerusalem (Wikipedia)
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The Assizes of Jerusalem are a collection of numerous medieval legal treatises written in Old French containing the law of the crusader kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus.
View the Source Assizes of Romania (Wikipedia)
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The Assizes of Romania (French: Assises de Romanie), formally the Book of the Usages and Statutes of the Empire of Romania (Venetian: Libro de le Uxanze e Statuti de lo Imperio de Romania), is a collection of laws compiled in the Principality of Achaea that became the common law code of the states of Frankish Greece in the 13th-15th centuries, and continued in occasional use in the Venetian Ionian Islands until the 18th century.
View the Source Charter of 1815 (Wikipedia)
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The Charter of 1815, signed on 22 April 1815, was the French constitution prepared by Benjamin Constant at the request of Napoleon I when he returned from exile on Elba.
View the Source Corsican Constitution (Wikipedia)
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The first Corsican Constitution was drawn up in 1755 for the short-lived Corsican Republic independent from Genoa beginning in 1755, and remained in force until the annexation of Corsica by France in 1769.
View the Source Coutumes de Beauvaisis (Wikipedia)
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The Coutumes of Beauvaisis is a book on medieval French law composed by Philippe de Beaumanoir at the end of the 13th century in Old French prose.
View the Source Fundamental laws of the Kingdom of France (Wikipedia)
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The fundamental laws of the Kingdom of France were a set of unwritten principles which dealt with determining the question of royal succession, and placed limits on the otherwise absolute power of the king from the Middle Ages until the French Revolution in 1789.
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