ABSTRACT
This chapter studies geographical conflicts of law in a very small area and it would not be wise to make any general statements based on its data. It focuses on Flemish feudal law during the High Middle Ages. The chapter does not deal with transactions concerning fiefs, but rather with established relations between overlords, lords, vassals and fiefs. It also restricts itself to conflicts of a geographical nature, leaving disputes about status, whether of goods or persons, unstudied. Another problem is 'international', as it implies conflicts of national laws, which are absent in this part of Europe at the time. At the interregional level, they could not work, as the rules for solving conflicts of laws themselves conflicted, becoming part of the problem rather than the solution. Interregional rules of conflict were more than mechanisms for solving legal problems, they were also instruments of power.
