Anglo-Saxon

• Crime against the person

  • Murder
  • assault
  • public disorder
• Crime against property

  • Arson
  • theft e.g stealing crops/poaching
  • counterfeiting coins
• Crimes against authority

  • Treason
  • rebellion
• Anglo-Saxon law enforcement

  • Tithings- all people in a tithing were responsible for each other : if one was caught committing a crime
  • the tithing was responsible for taking those to court or a fine was paid
• Church

  • The church could decide whether an accused person was guilty by using trial by ordeal
• Wergild

  • A system of fines used in Anglo-Saxon England that paid as compensation to the victims of crime or their families