2.4 - How Far Did Normans Change Anglo-Saxon Justice

Question 1

What were the main types of crimes

Answer 1

• Killing Norman soldiers
  
  • Breaking forest laws (no cutting trees, cannot hunt deers etc)
  • Social crime

Question 2

What methods were used to enforce the law? What trials were used to establish guilt or innocence?

Answer 2

• Hue and cry
  
  • Tithing
  • Murdrum fine
  • Forest laws
  • Trial by ordeal
  • Trial by combat
  • Church courts

Question 3

What did the normans change?

Answer 3

• castles were built to control the land
• forest laws introduced
• introduced trial by combat
• Norman - Frenchman became the language used in courts
• all court records were kept in Latin
• fines were paid to kings courts instead
• church courts introduced
• women and men had equal rights . Laws were still harsher on women

Question 4

What did Normans keep the same

Answer 4

• Capital punishment used for serious crimes
• traditional Anglo- Saxon laws were kept the same
• fines used for lesser crimes
• many policing methods stayed the same