Crime and punishment topic 1

• What were the common Crimes in the angle Saxon villages 


  crimes against a person

  crime against authority

  crimes against property
• Anglo saxons law enforcements

  tithings

  hue and cry

  local officials
• What were the tithings?


  a group of 10 men who monitored eachother of one broke the law the other would bring him to court to be punished
• what did the local officials do?

  carried out the decisions made by local courts
• What was hue and cry?

  If a victim raised the hue and cry calling the whole village would have to chase the criminal
• what is blood feud 


  Victims Family took revenge
• what was wergild 


  Compensation paid to victims family upon death
• what is botgeld 


  Compensation paid for injury
• What was used for corporal punishment?


  Stocks

  whipping
• why was corporal punishment used? 


  for deterrent and retribution
• Why was trail by ordeal used? 


  When the jury could not decide
• Name 2 trails by ordeals

  Trail by cold water

  trail by iron
• Name 2 common crimes being committed during the norman period


  poaching

  being a outlaw
• what 2 law enforcement Did William the conqueror keep the same 


  Tithings

  hue and cry
• What were the 2 new laws 


  Mudrum law

  forest law
• a New trail by ordeal was added what was it?(normas)


  Trail by combat
• what did henry VII do?

  the assizes of clarendon (a new set of rules to improve way that trails and courts were run)

  he also set up prisons to hold on suspects before they went court

  order royal judges to decide upon serious cases
• what were the new laws during the middle ages?

  statue of Labouré's

  heresy
• what were the royal judges called?


  justices of Eyre
• what was heresy law?

  crime against the belief of the church
• law enforcements during the middles ages

  hue and cry

  coroners

  sanctuary
• punishment during the middle age

  fines

  corporal punishments

  execution