By Alan Harding
ISBN-10: 019821958X
ISBN-13: 9780198219583
ISBN-10: 1423767365
ISBN-13: 9781423767367
"The kingdom" is the main robust of political rules yet the place does it come from? This broad-ranging new research strains the background of the notice and the idea that again to the platforms of legislation and justice created by means of medieval kings and indicates how criminal associations received political strength.
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83 For the implementation of his treaty with the Danes in 991, Ethelred relied heavily on the peace of the burgh, which seemed to spread outwards from the defensible house of the king, and he set out just how merchant ships might be admitted to a fridbyrig (‘curiam pacis’ in the post-Conquest translation). In his Wantage laws for the Danelaw, Ethelred declared that breach of the peace given by his hand could not be atoned for with money, if his grid was to remain as firm as in the days of his ancestors.
J. 15; Julius Goebel, Felony and Misdemeanor, i (New York and London, 1937), 39–44, 156, has a valuable discussion of the meaning of malo ordine, but does not connect it specifically with title to land. g. in Diplomata . . Merowingica, diplomas of the mayors of the palace, no. 21: p. 45); cf. the 12th-cent. English writ of novel disseisin which alleged that the disseisin was iniuste et sine iudicio: examples in Royal Writs in England from the Conquest to Glanvill, ed. C. Van Caenegem, Selden Soc.
2 vols. (Cambridge UP, 1898), ii. 590–1. Legal order 31 legal order English developments may help us to understand what had happened earlier in the Frankish empire. The perambulations of the missi, the empire-wide oath-taking, and the writing-down of bodies of territorial law which followed Charlemagne’s imperial coronation in 800 were no doubt the application of an ecclesiastical ideal of universal peace, but they were also and to a greater degree the culmination of the spreading of the king’s mund by individual grants and judgments since the earliest days of the Frankish monarchy.