Alfred the Great Containing Chapters On His Life And Times
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40-44, 61. Even under Henry II. We find, in terms, such an offer, but it looks, in the light of the context, more like a rhetorical asseveration in fact the modern " j'en mettrais ma main au feu" than anything else : of. Cit. 196. 21 8 King Alfred rather common for the parties to compromise at the last moment. Also, since there were no ready means of enforcing the performance of a judgment on unwilling parties, great men supported by numerous followers could often defy the court, and this natur...ally made it undesirable to carry matters to extremity which, if both parties were strong, might mean private war. Most early forms of jurisdiction, indeed, of which we have any know- ledge, seem better fitted to put pressure on the litigants to agree than to produce an effective judg- ment of compulsory force. Assuredly this was the case with those which we find in England even after the consolidation of the kingdom under the Danish dynasty. Rigid and cumbrous as Anglo-Saxon justice was in the things it did provide for, it was, to modern eyes, strangely defective in its lack of executive power.
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