Nothing or almost is comparable with the Roman law who had influenced the majority of the modern legislations, in that at least and essentially that the individual cannot be made justice itself and that there exists, well say , a public law and a private law, a civil law and a right law. In the Celtic field, where few principle of the public law is not included/understood, the private law t is grown and transferred to the person from the families, the cantons or the states. All rests, on the one hand on the contracts signed between the private individuals and the obligations which they have idiot tractor drawn, and on the other hand on the pecuniary composition, variable according to the sex and the social status, which had for a wrong, a damage (murder include) undergone by an individual and, through him, by a whole family. With die is necessary amicable settlement the conflicts between private individuals finish in legal duels and ordalies. The natural solution of the conflicts between princes or states is the war.

from "Les Druides" by Françoise Le roux and Chreistian J Guyonvarc'h éditions OUest France université ISBN 2.85882.920.9