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Frankpledge
Frankpledge Frank"pledge`, n. [Frank free + pledge.] (O. Eng.
Law)
(a) A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, --
each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary,
tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the
good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the
public peace; a free surety.
(b) The tithing itself. --Bouvier.
The servants of the crown were not, as now, bound
in frankpledge for each other. --Macaulay.
Meaning of Frankpledge from wikipedia
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Frankpledge was a
system of
joint suretyship common in
England throughout the
Early Middle Ages and High
Middle Ages. The
essential characteristic was...
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central part of the
tourn was
known as 'views of
frankpledge', when the
sheriff looked into the
frankpledge or frith-borh system, for
which all
freemen and...
- court) of
England and
Wales and
Ireland that
exercised the "view of
frankpledge" and its
attendant police jurisdiction,
which was
normally restricted...
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system known as
frankpledge. If a
person accused of a
crime was not forthcoming, his
tithing was fined; if he was not part of the
frankpledge, the
whole town...
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Extrajudicial punishment Frankpledge, an
American form of frontier-vigilantism
which emerged as a "mutation" of the
Saxon tradition of
frankpledge Frontier justice...
- of
neighbourhood watch, by a
collective responsibility system called frankpledge.
Tithings were
organised into
groups of 10,
called hundreds due to them...
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Chinese social relations Family members of a
traitor to the
Motherland Frankpledge Guilt by ****ociation Kin
punishment Nine
bestowments Number nine in Chinese...
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Suretyship was not
always accomplished through the
execution of a bond.
Frankpledge, for example, was a
system of
joint suretyship prevalent in Medieval...
- (chief pledge) or
decennarius (tenner). In the Anglo-Saxon
system of
frankpledge, or frith-borh, the
headborough presided over the
borhsmen in his jurisdiction...
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conquest of
England in 1066, the
tithing system was
tightened with the
frankpledge system. By the end of the 13th century, the
office of
constable developed...