In the ancient world, laws were put there to keep people in place and to give justice to the people that were wronged. In The Code of the Salian Franks, you can see that justice meant a great deal to them. Like in other cultures laws are there to keep a society going like in Rome in the Twelve Tables. In these two societies, you can see justice means a lot and they believed in consequences in breaking the law in the resulting consequence depending on which one you broke. In The Code of the Salian Franks, each of the laws has a specific consequence. The Franks believed in justice, they saw that a consequence must be higher if the act they did was worse. Like for example, a lesser law was broken like “If any one have assaulted and plundered