Danzig law (German: Danziger Willkür; in Polish: Gdański Wilkierz ) was the official set of records of the laws of city of Danzig (Gdańsk). Danziger Willkür means „Danzig's choice by free will“, as opposed to having been imposed from outside, as while part of the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights. Nowadays, the meaning of Willkür has eroded to "arbitrariness".
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