The German term Landrecht (territorial law) and its compounds (e.g. Landrechtreformation) denoted legal sources of variegated content from the late Middle Ages onwards, and and continued to do so until even after 1800. The term dated back to the medieval legal system, which was composed of isolated legal fields (Rechtskreise, “legal circles”) applicable to groups of persons or lordships, such as feudal law for specific (generally noble) loan and authority conditions, Hofrecht (court law; Weistum) for legal relationships in manorialism, municipal law for legal relatio…