Backberend and handhabend
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Backberend and handhabend
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In Anglo-Saxon law, backberend and handhabend were terms applied to a thief who was found having the stolen goods in his possession. The terms are respectively derived from "bearing [a thing] upon the back" and "having [a thing] in the hand". The thief himself was a hontfongenethef, meaning "a thief taken with handhabend"; i.e., captured while holding the stolen item in his hand, later described as "red-handed". By extension, handhabend and backberend also means the jurisdiction to try a thief c
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