Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The common law or right of the people; the law or right of the people as opposed to that of the privileged classes.
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In process of time the rights originating in royal grants of privilege overbalanced, as it were, folk-right in many respects, and became themselves the starting-point of a new legal system -- the feudal one.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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The chief centres for the formulation and application of folk-right were in the 10th and 11th centuries the shire-moots, while the witan of the realm generally placed themselves on the higher ground of State expediency, although occasionally using folk-right ideas.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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The older law of real property, of succession, of contracts, the customary tariffs of fines, were mainly regulated by folk-right; the reeves employed by the king and great men were supposed to take care of local and rural affairs according to folk-right.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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Danes, Welshmen, and these main folk-right divisions remain even when tribal kingdoms disappear and the people is concentrated in one or two realms.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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Add "folk-right" to the meanings in the Gloss.; and cf.
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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Add "folk-right" to the meanings in the Gloss.; and cf.
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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(a) The Anglo-Saxon legal system cannot be understood unless one realizes the fundamental opposition between folk-right and privilege.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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