The language of the law code is Latin and few Thuringians could have read it, nonetheless some must have cooperated with Frankish officials during the process of collecting and codifying the customs.
They were neither totally faithful nor comprehensive reproductions of tribal law, but were created as part of a process of official christianisation.
"[3] Per chapter 31 of the Lex Thuringorum, feuds were heritable: "To whomever an inheritance of land should descend, he also should receive the battlegear—that is to say, the breastplate—and the [obligations] of vengeance for kin and the payment of wergild.
[5] In the Thuringian law, the severity of punishment for the crime of raptus (abduction) is equivalent to that for murder, an indication that the former was understood to include rape or sexual violence.
[6] Per chapter 47, a woman was permitted to have money, but not to spend it as she saw fit, nor was she to marry without permission.