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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.