Editing Carolingian Empire (section)

===Legal system===
Around 780 Charlemagne reformed the local system of administering justice and created the ''scabini'', professional experts on the law. Every count had the help of seven of these scabini, who were supposed to know every national law so that all men could be judged according to it.

Judges were also banned from taking bribes and were supposed to use sworn inquests to establish facts.

In 802, all law was written down and amended (the [[Salic law]] was also amended in both 798 and 802, although even Einhard admits in section 29 that this was imperfect). Judges were supposed to have a copy of both the Salic law code and the [[Ripuarian law]] code.

Most people in the Carolingian Empire lived under a legal code that directly copied from [[Roman law]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Carlyle |first1=Alexander James |author-link1=Alexander James Carlyle |title=A History of Medieval Political Theory in the West |last2=Carlyle |first2=Robert Warrand |author-link2=Robert Warrand Carlyle |publisher=[[William Blackwood and Sons]] |year=1909 |volume=II |location=Edinburgh |pages=5}}</ref>