Divisions
The various types of secular legal pronouncements which survive from the Anglo-Saxon period can be grouped into three general categories, according to the manner of their publication:
- laws and collections of laws promulgated by public authority;
- statements of custom;
- private compilations of legal rules and enactments.
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