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	'''Sachsenspiegel -'''		'''Sachsenspiegel -''' It is the most important law book of the German Middle Ages. It covers the common law (Landrecht) i.e.,property rights, inheritances, matrimonies etc. and regulates criminal law and the feudal law (Lehnrecht), i.e., relationships between different estates, election of emperors and kings, feudal rights etc. Parts of the Sachsenspiegel played a role as a subsidiary administration of justice until the introduction of the BGB (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch = code of civil law) in the year 1900.