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NORTHAMPTON, ASSIZE OF

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 767 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NEW-NUM
NORTHAMPTON, ASSIZE OF , a short code of
English
 
laws
  issued in 1176, is
drawn
  up in the form of instructions to six committees of three judges each, which were to visit the six circuits into which England was divided for the purpose. Though purporting to be a reissue of the
Assize
  of Clarendon (1166), it contains in fact many new provisions. As compared with the earlier
assize
  it prescribes greater severity of
punishment
  for criminal offences;
arson
  and forgery were henceforth to be crimes about which the jurors are to enquire; and those who failed at the
ordeal
  were to lose a hand as well as a foot. In what is perhaps the most important section we may probably see the origin of the possessory action of most d'ancestor, an innovation scarcely less striking than the institution of the novel disseisin in the winter of 1166. The justices were also ordered to try proprietary actions commenced by the king's writ for the recovery of land held by the service of half a knight's fee or less. In their fiscal capacity they were to enquire into escheats, churches, lands and women in the king's
gift
 . The royal bailiffs were to answer at the
exchequer
  for rents of assize and all the perquisites which they made in their offices, and apparently the duty of enforcing this provision was entrusted to the justices. As a result of the rebellion of 11731174 it was provided that an oath of fealty should be taken by all, " to wit, barons, knights, freeholders and even villeins (rustici)", and that any one who refused should be arrested as the king's enemy, and the justices were to see that the castles whose demolition had been ordered were completely razed.


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