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the Danelaw, Mercia and Wessex was repeated. The
general lines of government and society already laid
down are followed without much change, though there
is a tendency to closer organisation—not a new thing,
but leading in the direction of feudalism. It used to
be thought, for example, that private jurisdiction came
in with Knút, but Professor Maitland (Domesday Book
and Beyond, p. 282) has shown that express grants of
sac and soc were known in the tenth century. Under
Knút, however, the mutual responsibility on which
order and justice were based seems to have become
rather more territorial than merely personal ; every
freeman over twelve years of age was to be enrolled in
a Hundred and Tithing. [1]
The hundred court had
to see justice done, failing which the king’s justice
could be appealed to; he alone could decide cases
involving outlawry, and had the dues in certain causes,
such as highway robbery (whence "the king’s highway"),
and other breaches of the peace not covered
by the popular courts. In the county court the bishop
and the ealdorman still presided, no distinction being
made between the administration of ecclesiastical and
that of secular law. Nor was any distinction made to
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