The Witenagemot
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Witenagemot · Anglo-Saxon Witenagemot · Pares Curiae · the Imperial Witenagemot
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Ancient Law (English)
Of this nature was the criminal jurisdiction of the Anglo-Saxon Witenagemot.
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Ancient Law
Anglo-Saxon assembly credited with a criminal jurisdiction of its own.
Of this nature was the criminal jurisdiction of the Anglo-Saxon Witenagemot.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
The Anglo-Saxon great council whose limited legislative and judicial authority is described at length.
“The Imperial Witenagemot was not a legislative assembly, in the strict sense of the term, for the whole Anglo-Saxon empire.
In this assembly, the king, the prelates, the dukes, the ealdormen, and the optimates passed judgment upon all great offenders.
In the Anglo-Saxon commonwealth, therefore, the legislative functions of the Witenagemot were of far less importance than the other branches of its authority.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The Anglo-Saxon assembly credited by Freeman, perhaps excessively, with a right to elect the king.
Professor Freeman pushed to excess the supposed right of the Witenagemot to elect the King, and transferred it to the Norman Curia.