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Anglo-Saxon England
- The Situation
- No police
- No lawyers
- No magistrates
- No prisons
- Man accused of crime
- Brought
friends and
neighbours to
swear that he
was innocent
- Brought
friends and
neighbours to
swear that he
was innocent
- No police
- Tithings
- People over 12
belonged to a tithing
- Sheriffs ensured everyone
belonged to a tithing
- Whole villages fined if anyone
was found 'outside a tithing'
- Sheriffs ensured everyone
belonged to a tithing
- 10 men in each tithing
- Responsible for
each other's
behaviour
- Responsible for
each other's
behaviour
- People over 12
belonged to a tithing
- Wergild
- Life price
- E.g. Quarrel - An ear be
struck off - 12 shillings
- E.g. Quarrel - An ear be
struck off - 12 shillings
- 1,200 for thane
= 500 oxen
- 100 shillings
for freemen
- 100 shillings
for freemen
- Intended to stop previous
blood feuds
- Murder - If the murderer
paid the money to the dead
man's family/master = crime
cancelled
- Murder - If the murderer
paid the money to the dead
man's family/master = crime
cancelled
- Amount paid depended on
who was killed, their status,
and the location.
- King decided
whether the
guilty man
should be sent
overseas or
executed
- Life price
- Other Punishments
- Hand cut off for making bad coins
- Lying: Tongue cut off
- Whippings
- Stocks
- Hand cut off for making bad coins
- Proof
- Caught red-handed
- Suspicion
- Trial by ordeal
- Hot iron
- Hot iron
- Trial by water
- Holy water to drink
- Chucked into pond
- Guilty = floated
- Guilty = floated
- Chucked into pond
- Holy water to drink
- Caught red-handed
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