Habit of Normandy

The Coutume of Normandy is a legal system appeared in Normandy at the beginning of the 10th century starting from admixture of legal principles Scandinavian S on the right frankly of use in old the Neustrie. The fixing of these practices during the reign of William the Conqueror succeeded, in the middle of with a unified system recorded in two usual, the old Très usual (1200 - 1245) and the Summa of legibus Normanniae in curia laïcali (1235 - 1245).

The outstanding features which distinguish the Norman right are the absence, on the legal level, of social distinctions between the Norman ones which are equal in front of the law. The system of succession excludes the girls because of their impossibility of transmitting the goods in the family and grants a place privileged to elder which is the only heir. Perhaps deriving from the Scandinavian habit: “When a son is born to them, the father moves towards the newborn, the sword with the hand and, throwing it to ground, he says to him: I will not bequeath myself any good: you will not have what you can get with this weapon. ”, this provision, in any case, gave to place to the expression “junior by Normandy” to nominate a not very fortunate person. In the same way, the matrimonial system rested on the separation of good between husband, the husband becoming owner of all the goods acquired during the union.

An interesting provision of the habit of Normandy lies in the Clameur of haro which is a verbal complaint as a public of that with which one makes some violence or injustice and which is worth writ of summons.

The political tendencies of the habit of Normandy will be in force in their state in France until the Révolution.

The English legislation preserved broad portions of the Norman right, including in the processes, the formulas and the language. The Anglo-Saxon Droit remains impregnated of Norman right.

Today still, the habit of Normandy inspires the legislation of the parts of Normandy depending on the British Couronne, in particular the Clameur of haro which remains in force with Sercq, Jersey and Guernesey. The lawyers intending itself for the occupation of lawyer or legal consultant for Guernesey (or, until recently, for Jersey) must supplement a six months academic cycle in Norman right to the Université of Caen and obtain a Certificat of French legal studies and Normans before being able to be registered with the bar of Guernesey or Jersey.

1° - De Jurisdiction.

2° - De Haro.
3° - Of Law apparoissant.

4° - Of Delivery of Namps.
5° - Of Patronage of Church.

6° - De Monnéage.
7° - De Banon & Defend.

8° - Of Benefit of Inventory.
9° - Of the Strongholds & Rights feudal.

10° - Of the Guards.
11° - Of Succession in proper & old inheritance, as well hot line as collateral.

12° - Of Succession into clean to Bailliage de Caux, & other places where the aforementioned Habit extends in the Viscount from Rouen.
13° - Of the collateral successions in pieces of furniture, acquisitions & conquêts.

14° - Of division of Heritage.
15° - De Douaire de Femmes & widowhood of Husbands.

16° - Of Will.
17° - Of the Donations.

18° - Of the Withdrawals & Clamors of purse.
19° - Which things are supposed pieces of furniture, which real things.

20° - Of the Regulations.
21° - Of Brief of encumbered marriage.

22° - Of the Executions by decree.
23° - Of the Kelp.

24° - Of the Constraints.

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Guillaume Lambert, which was selected in 1583 to collaborate in the new drafting of the Habit of Normandy

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