Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 40
, a middle, and an inferior judicial court were recognised. The firstalone possessed the power of life and death. The more considerable fiefs hadusually attached to them the right to exercise the highest justice, but therewere exceptions to this rule. A vavasseur, for instance, might… … Fig. 15.—View overlooking the Castle of Pierrefonds (beginning of the Fifteenth Century), asrestored by M. Viollet-le-Duc, in his Dictionnaire dArchitecture. The privilege of coining money, always a sure index of sovereignty,together with the exclusion of all foreign jurisdiction and of all…
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