These were usually sac and soke
[possession of jurisdiction of a private court of a noble or
institution to execute the laws and administer justice over
inhabitants and tenants of the estate], toll [right to have a
market and to collect a payment on the sale of cattle and other
property on the estate] and team [probably the right to hold a
court to determine the honesty of a man accused of illegal
possession of cattle or of buying stolen cattle by inquiring of
the alleged seller or a warrantor, even if an outsider], and
infangenetheof [the authority to hang and take the chattels of a
thief caught on the estate].
The town of Coventry consisted of a large monastery estate and a
large private estate headed by a lord. The monastery was granted
by Edward the Confessor full freedom and these jurisdictions: sac
and soke, toll and team, hamsocne [the authority to fine a person
for breaking into and making entry by force into the dwelling of
another], forestall [the authority to fine a person for robbing
others on the road], bloodwite [the authority to impose a
forfeiture for assault involving bloodshed], fightwite [the
authority to fine for fighting], weordwite [the authority to fine
for manslaughter, but not for willful murder], and mundbryce [the
authority to fine for any breach of the peace, such as trespass on
lands].
Every man was expected to have a lord to whom he gave fealty.
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