On the other hand it has also been argued that the bans were a reaction against local Germanic customs of kindred marriage.

Charlemagne ended the Germanic custom of an itinerant court moving from place to place and established a real capital.

The Franks under the Merovingians melded Germanic custom with Romanized organisation and several important tactical innovations.

The terce was earliest known as tertia collaborationis and first appears in the Ripuarian law code, making it also a localized Germanic custom.

The name derives from the Germanic tribal custom of giving them the morning after the wedding night.

As they were agnates of the ducal house, the title of Duke belonged to everyone of them (as is the Germanic custom).

The church tax is historically rooted in the pre-Christian Germanic custom where the chief of the tribe was directly responsible for the maintenance of priests and religious cults.

Additionally, its inheritance laws were based on Germanic custom.

A legal system, in which Roman law was mixed with elements of canon law and of Germanic custom, especially feudal law, had emerged.

Her murder is presented as in accordance with ancient Germanic custom for "race pollution."