Creating a Danish legal language: legal terminology in the medieval Law of Scania

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Creating a Danish legal language: legal terminology in the medieval Law of Scania. / Tamm, Ditlev; Vogt, Helle.

In: Historical Research, Vol. 86, No. 233, 2013, p. 505-514.

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Harvard

Tamm, D & Vogt, H 2013, 'Creating a Danish legal language: legal terminology in the medieval Law of Scania', Historical Research, vol. 86, no. 233, pp. 505-514.

APA

Tamm, D., & Vogt, H. (2013). Creating a Danish legal language: legal terminology in the medieval Law of Scania. Historical Research, 86(233), 505-514.

Vancouver

Tamm D, Vogt H. Creating a Danish legal language: legal terminology in the medieval Law of Scania. Historical Research. 2013;86(233):505-514.

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Tamm, Ditlev ; Vogt, Helle. / Creating a Danish legal language: legal terminology in the medieval Law of Scania. In: Historical Research. 2013 ; Vol. 86, No. 233. pp. 505-514.

Bibtex

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