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| | Chapter 1: St. James's Catapult |
 | | The law which they observed, the Lex Visigothorum, was an old law. |
 | | It was the code of king Reccaswinth, enlarged by the Novels of Wamba, Erwig and Egica, that still governed the [25] vital transactions of family and therefore of political life -- the marrying and the giving in marriage, the transmission of property to heirs, the safeguarding of the rights of widows and orphans. |
 | | The names they gave their children were old names, drawn from a distant Suevic and Visigothic past: names such as Miro and Leovigild, Fromaric and Fagildo, Tudemir and Attila, abound in the charters of the tenth and eleventh centuries. |
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