Contrasts in English Criminal Law.

most heinous offenses for a pecuniary mulct; and even Tacitus, in speaking of the ancient

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relations of him that were slain received satisfaction. Mr. Reeves, in his History of

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Germans, says that it was customary among them to punish homicide with a certain number of sheep and oxen, out of which the

the English law, emphasizes the thought that the idea of pecuniary compensation ran through the entire Saxon code, and even