Saxon law (German Sächsisches Recht, Sächsisch-magdeburgisches Recht) was a relatively coherent complex of norms in the Saxon jurisdiction (Saxony, Prince-Bishopric of Magdeburg, Thuringia, Anhalt, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, Guelph territories, parts of Holstein and Silesia; Particular law), which formed in the late Middle Ages on the basis of the Sachsenspiegel and Magdeburg municipal law and acquired relatively autonomous form alongside the ius commune (which had dev…