Note 87 — Chapter I · PENAL METHODS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
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“The lord exercised ... jurisdiction in civil and criminal suits which, with all the profits—for in early times the pecuniary interests of justice formed no small part of the advantages of judicial power—was conferred on him by the original gift.”—Stubbs, Const. Hist. i. p. 102, and Holdsworth, 13, 14.