Keeping Law And Order Flashcards
1
Q
Give 2 examples in continuity of law and order between Anglo Saxon and Norman England
A
- England was divided into shores and there were shire courts
- hundred course continued
- land holding divided amongst families
2
Q
3 examples of change in law and order
A
- large earldoms replaced with smallest ones
- castles built in shire towns
- honoris courts became more important than shire courts
- juries introduced
- Norman’s introduced
3
Q
How did Norman’s change language in law
A
- all charters and writings were written in Latin
- church laws in Latin
4
Q
How did Norman’s change punishments
A
-Norman’s more brutal with capital punishment mutilation and ordeal system
5
Q
What was ordeal by fire
A
-person put arm into cauldron of boiling water or held red hot iron bar wound bandages and if healed in 3 days = innocent
6
Q
Ordeal by water
A
-strapped to chair of drowned then innocent and if floated Guilty
7
Q
Ordeal by combat
A
-nobleman would fight accuser and whoever lost would be dead by end of fight and guilty
8
Q
Forest laws
A
-anyone caught hunting in forest could be fined mutilated blinded or executed
