Note 10 — Chapter I · PENAL METHODS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
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“To keep the peace is the legislator’s first object, and it is not easy. To force the injured man or the slain man’s kinsfolk to accept a money compensation instead of resorting to reprisals is the main aim of the law-giver.”—F. W. Maitland, Constitutional History of England, p. 4. Cambridge, 1908.