Nomos Georgikos
The Nomos Georgikos (Greek: Νόμος Γεωργικός, "Farmer's Law") was a Byzantine code of law promulgated likely during the reign of emperor Justinian II (r. 685–695 and 705–711), which has survived in dozens of 10th-century manuscripts. It focused largely on peasantry and rural villages, and protected farmer property, concerned with property damage, theft, taxation (the village as a fiscal unit with required communal tax), and included penalties on misdemeanors committed by villagers (also, tax-payers could appropriate criminal farmer's land).