Brettwalda
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
or BRETTWALDA. The leade;: of the Saxon heptarchy.
Steph. Lect. 696.
BRETTS and SCOTTS, LAWS OF THE. A code or system of laws in use among the Celtic tribes of Scotland down to the beginning of the fourteenth century, and then abolished by Edward I. of England. A fragment only is now extant. See Acts Pari. Scotland, vol.
1, pp. 299-301, Edin. 1844.
It is interesting, like the Brehon laws of Ireland, in a historical point of view.