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The Anglo-Saxon ealdorman (meaning "chief man") was an officer of the king who was essentially leader of a shire, which included the presidency of the shire court; as they became more powerf [..]

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The term refers to a financial penalty imposed by judicial authorities on guilty parties (both parties guilty of a crime of which accused, or guilty of making a charge found by the court to be groundl [..]

Assize was a concept used in several contexts; in some of these its etymology may refer back to the term for a "session" or "sitting" of a legal tribunal, while in others its deriv [..]

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The landlord of a franchise (be it manor or town) did not get involved in the daily administration of his property and its inhabitants; he appointed officials to undertake duties such as collection of [..]

Derives from the Old English term burh, which was originally applied to any fortified place, such as a thegn's house or a hilltop – not necessarily a populated place. During the wars bet [..]

A burgage tenement was a piece of property within a borough, normally comprising a residential plot with or without additional non-agricultural land, that was held by certain distinctive customs (&quo [..]

Although Domesday seems to have used this term fairly consistently to apply to town residents contributory towards the customary payments due the king from boroughs, later in the Middle Ages its varie [..]