The ''Stadslagen'' ('City Law'), was a Swedish

code of law A code of law, also called a law code or legal code, is a systematic collection of statutes. It is a type of legislation that purports to exhaustively cover a complete system of laws or a particular area of law as it existed at the time the co ...

passed by King

Magnus Eriksson Magnus Eriksson (April or May 1316 – 1 December 1374) was King of Sweden from 1319 to 1364, King of Norway as Magnus VII from 1319 to 1355, and ruler of Scania from 1332 to 1360. By adversaries he has been called ''Magnus Smek'' (). Medi ...

in circa 1350. It governed the life in the cities of Sweden until 1734. The ''Stadslagen'' was passed in about the same time as the ''

Magnus Erikssons landslag ''Magnus Erikssons landslag'' ('Country Law of Magnus Eriksson'), also known as simply the ('Country Law'), was a Swedish code of law passed by King Magnus Eriksson around 1341. It was the first attempt to apply a legal code to the entire nati ...

'' ('Country Law of Magnus Eriksson'), and as the former was to apply in the countryside, the city law was to apply in the cities. The law was strongly influenced by the contemporary German town law, as the Swedish cities at the time had many German settlers. In 1442, the country law was succeeded by the '' Kristofers landslag'', but the city law was merely incorporated in this and left unaltered and uncontested. It was printed in 1618. It was in effect in

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until the Civil Code of 1734. The name ''Stadslag'' is also used as a common name for the other city laws issued in Medieval Sweden.

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