The Court of Legislature, known in Icelandic as the Logretta, was a legislature and high court established in Iceland in the year 930 during the period of the Icelandic Commonwealth, combining lawmaking and the highest judicial authority of the Commonwealth in a single body. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Court of Legislature (Icelandic: Lögrétta [ˈlœɣˌrjɛhta], Old Norse: Lǫgrétta [ˈlɒɣˌreːtːa] "law-right") was a legislature and high court established in Iceland in the year 930 during the period of the Icelandic Commonwealth.
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