This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1803 Excerpt: ...or were impofed by their common consent. The fame motives, however, which induced a village or tything to enter into joint measures for their defence against a foreign enemy, determined them also to take precautions for compofing composing animosities and differences among their own members. Roused by the danger of a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1803 Excerpt: ...or were impofed by their common consent. The fame motives, however, which induced a village or tything to enter into joint measures for their defence against a foreign enemy, determined them also to take precautions for compofing composing animosities and differences among their own members. Roused by the danger of a quarrel which might be fatal to their union, and which might render them an easy prey to their neighbours, they readily interposed with all their influence to reconcile the parties, and to enforce their observance of the rules of justice. A judicial power was thus gradually assumed by every tything over the allodial or independent proprietors of which it was composed. The hundred, in like manner, came to exercise a power of determining the differences between the members of the several tythings, within the bounds of that larger district; as the meetings of the shire established a similar jurisdiction over the different hundreds comprehended in that extensive territory. These courts took cognizance of every cause, whether civil or criminal; and as they enjoyed the sole jurisdiction, in the first: instance, within the respective boundaries of each, they became naturally subordinate one to another; so that from the decision of the tything there lay an appeal to the hundred, and the sentences of this latter tribunal were reviewed in the greater meetings of the shire. These These courts were held originally by all the allodial proprietors of each particular district; and the fame persons had the fame right of presiding in their judicial procedure, as when their meetings were called to deliberate upon military affairs. It is probable that every kind oflaw-suit was at first determined in full assembly, and by a plurality of voices; but in the larger m...
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