Note 39 — Chapter III

Hallam says, "It was, however, to the county court that an English freeman chiefly looked for the maintenance of his civil rights."—2 Middle Ages, 392.

Also, "This (the county court) was the great constitutional judicature in all questions of civil right."—Ditto, 395.

Also, "The liberties of these Anglo-Saxon thanes were chiefly secured, next to their swords and their free spirits, by the inestimable right of deciding civil and criminal suits in their own county courts."—Ditto, 399.