Interim Report Respecting Sheriffs of the Commission to Inquire Into, Consider and Report Upon the Best Mode of Selecting, Appointing, and Numerating - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Interim Report Respecting Sheriffs of the Commission to Inquire Into, Consider and Report Upon the Best Mode of Selecting, Appointing, and Numerating Sheriffs, Etc., Etc., 1921

Under the institution of Frank Pledge - the earliest English Police System on record - the County was divided into Tithings, or groups of ten family heads, who were mutually responsible for each other's good behaviour, and bound to assist in producing any one of their number who transgressed before the Officers of Justice. Ten Tithings formed a Hundred and when the Sheriff held his Tourn or Court throughout the County twice yearly, he inquired of the heads of the Hundreds and Tithings as to what offences had been committed since his last visit. Most offences were punished by fines, and the levying of fines was the general business of'the Sheriff's Court.

The Sheriff, sitting in his Court, ordered the arrest of: persons accused of grave crimes and tried all offences, even assaults of an aggravated nature, not charged as breaches of the King's Peace. All breaches of the King's Peace had to be referred to the King's Court. The Sheriff sitting in the County Court, or as it was called, the Sheriff's Court, had, till some time after the Norman Con quest, unlimited jurisdiction in the civil affairs of the County.

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