Note 80 — Chapter I · PENAL METHODS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
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Often of death for serious offences, but the prisoner’s goods were forfeited for felony; hence it was to the profit of the government to have many felonies. See F. W. Maitland, Const. Hist. Eng. p. 111, and J. Britton, Nichols’ ed. p. 35. Oxford, 1855.