A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 10

from them as tenants on the condition to make the various services to the
landlord, as ploughing his/her earth that reaps his/her crops and other
job. Generally the tenant also became, the "to equip" of the landlord, and you/he/she did
him the homage; in third place, and he would be tied up to frequent the court in
what the gentleman or his/her assistant of edge it practiced jurisdiction.

This growth of private jurisdiction was another signal of the times.
Justice had been administered once in the popular meetings, although from
very first times there had been social distinctions. Every village had
his more "good" men, generally four in number of what it frequented the meetings the
the greatest called districts the Hundred;  and the "better" probably they were
those that had inherited or you/they had acquired the best agricultural house. This
aristocracy sometimes tightened him to one, and the magnate, to whom the poor man
surrendered to their earth in return for protection, it often acquired also
rights of jurisdiction, receiving the fines and imposed penalties for
breakups of the law. He was also, constituted responsible the behavior of
his/her poorer neighbours. Originally the family had been made for answering
for the offenses of his/her members;  but the tie of blood-relationship
weakened as the obligation of neighbourhood it grew stronger with affection to
the ground;  and instead of the natural unity of the family, an artificial
unity was created for the purpose of the responsibility to the law from
neighbours that associates together in groups of ten, peace-pawn called
or frith-borhs. It is at least possible that the "One hundred" they were a
the further association of ten frith-borhses as a taller and more person responsible
unity for the administration of the justice. But the to equip of landless was
unworthy as a member of a frith-borh, for the law it had on the small taking
a man that didn't have any earth to lose and any fixed residence. Then the
man of landless was forced from law to submit to a gentleman that was kept