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- ↑ Jean-Marie Cauchies, "Le privilège ou la keure", in Das Privileg im europäischen Vergleich, part 1, edited by Barbara Dölemeyer and Heinz Mohnhaupt (Ius commune: Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck Instituts für Europäische rechtsgeschichte 125; Frankfurt am Main, 1997), p. 135.
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- ↑ E. I. Strubbe, "De vijftiendeeuwse Brabantse rechtsgeleerde Willelm van der Tanerijen", Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis 11 (1932), pp. 265-283.
- ↑ Reviewed by Philippe Godding in Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire 33/2 (1955), pp. 436-440.
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