Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

merchenlage

- Also termed lex merciorum (leks mar-shee-or-am); Mercian law (mar-shee-an or mar-shan). See DANELAW; WEST SAXON LAW. "[A]bout the beginning of the eleventh century there were three principal systems of laws prevailing in different districts . . . . The Mercen-Lage, or Mercian laws, which were observed in many of the midland counties, and those bordering on the principality of Wales; the retreat of the ancient Britons; and therefore very probably intermixed with the British or Druidical customs." 1 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 65 (1765).