High, middle and low justice
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High, middle and low justice
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High, middle and low justices are notions dating from Western feudalism to indicate descending degrees of judicial power to administer justice by the maximal punishment the holders could inflict upon their subjects and other dependents. The scale of punishment generally matched the scale of spectacle, so that in France, Paul Friedland argues: "The degree of spectacle [was] originally the basis for a distinction between high and low justice", with an intervening level of 'middle justice', charact
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Legal hierarchy in Western feudalism
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High,_middle_and_low_justice
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2005-07-26T07:43:19Z
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2024-09-10T00:39:54Z
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