Anglo-Saxon Laws and Institutes: Incunabula Juris AnglicaniR. and J.E. Taylor, 1841 - 50 pages |
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Æðelstan Ælfred allodial ancient Anglo-Saxon laws antiquity appears attulerit become belonged berht bond Bôt burthen called ceorl charter Christian classes clergy comites commerce compensation court district document ealdormen earliest enactments eorl favour Folclond foranus forest gegyldan gemôt Germ German Godsord gradually graviones heathen hundred shillings important individual institutions Kent Kentish shilling kindred king king's kinsman Leód leodgeld litus London mægburh mancuses Mercian law Mercian shill nobility Norman conquest oath officers old Saxon paid passage peace pence period persons portion possess pound priesthood prince principle prittig þusenda private warfare rank rendered respect royal Saxon scæts sceat sceattas scill slay slayer SPOLIA OPIMA Tacitus teloñ Teutonic thane thief thirty thousand Thorpe Thorpe's thousand thrymsas thrive thryms tion tribe twelfhynde tythings unum unwritten law vendat wer-gild Wessex whole witan witena word
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Page 46 - Price 31*. 6d. ANCIENT LAWS AND INSTITUTES OF ENGLAND ; comprising Laws enacted under the Anglo-Saxon Kings, from JEthelbirht to Cnut, with an English Translation of the Saxon ; the Laws called Edward the Confessor's ; the Laws of William the Conqueror, and those ascribed to Henry the First ; also...
Page 46 - Kings, from jEthelbirht to Cnut, with an English Translation of the Saxon ; the Laws called Edward the Confessor's ; the Laws of William the Conqueror, and those ascribed to Henry the First ; also, Monumenta Ecclesiastica Anglicana, from the 7th to the 10th century ; and the Ancient Latin Version of the Anglo-Saxon Laws ; with a compendious Glossary,, &c.
Page 74 - And if a merchant thrived, so that he fared thrice over the wide sea by his own means, then was he thenceforth of thane-right worthy.
Page 89 - ... except those which were there before done away with ; which was Sunday marketing and that with full and true witness any one might buy out of part. Eleventh That jEthelstan commands his bishops and his 'ealdormen...
Page 86 - That every man of them who has heard the orders should be aidful to others as well in tracing as in pursuit so long as the track is known and after the track has failed him that one man be found where there is a large population as well as from one tithing where a less population is, either to ride or to go (unless there be need of more) thither when most need is and as they all have ordained. Fifth That no search be abandoned either to the north...
Page 85 - And we have ordained : respecting those lordless men of whom no law can be got, that the kindred be commanded that they domicile him to folk-right, and find him a lord in the Folkmote...
Page 89 - This is the ordinance which the bishops and reeves belonging to London have ordained and with 'weds' confirmed, among our ' frith-gegildas' as well eorlish as ceorlish, in addition to the dooms which were fixed at Greatanlea and at Exeter and at Thunresfeld.
Page 65 - ... individual, partly of a fine to the authority whose peace or protection (Mund) has been violated, and partly of a sum paid to the state in consideration of its enforcing the compact between the parties, is apparently confounded by Tacitus under the word mulcta, in the wellknown passage, " Pars mulctse regi vel civitati, pars ipsi qui " vindicatur, vel propinquis ejus exsolvitur
Page 89 - Tms is the ordinance which the bishops and the reeves belonging to London have ordained, and with weds confirmed, among our
Page 89 - ... 5. And also that every one shall help another, as it is ordained and by ' weds ' confirmed ; and such man as shall neglect this beyond the march, let him be liable in xxx pence, or an ox, if he aught of this neglect which stands in our writings, and we with our ' weds