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The document discusses the decline of law speakers in Germanic societies and the rise of Roman law. As Germans invaded the Roman Empire: 1) Germanic and Roman laws existed side by side, with Roman law becoming more influential. Germans turned to Roman jurists to write down their laws in Latin. 2) Roman ideas infiltrated the codified Germanic laws, filling in gaps. This led law speakers, who traditionally recited and interpreted Germanic customary law orally, to lose their jobs. 3) As Germanic societies

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Patch Magtanong
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