Manor Courts
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Manor Courts are made for smaller crimes. Most crimes involved farming and property. Villagers could get in trouble for using to much manure, not bringing their oxen to plough, For ploughing another person land. Even serfs could sue. The Manor Court also dealt with cases of assault, public drunkenness, petty theft,and other small crimes. A manor court was a lot like a town meeting which involves most of the village being there. It was the Villagers who would deicide who won the case. The lord or a representative of the lord, which was called a steward, acted as a judge deciding the sentence.
Royal Courts
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The Royal Courts are made for bigger crimes such as: murder, treason, rape, burglary, poaching game from royal forest, cutting down there trees, or taking deadwood for fuel were considered serious crimes. In 1300 theft of anything more than a shilling was considered a capitol crime worthy of death. After being executed the court would take away all his/her property. Other punishments were banishment, a fine, and mutilation.
Church Court
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Only Church Courts could judge Bishops, Deacons, Priests, Clerks, Monks, and Nuns. Church Courts gave more gentler sentences than other courts, and they could not sentence people to death. To prove that he or she was part of the church a literacy test was sometime used to prove that a person worked for a church. For this reason some criminals tried to educate themselves. Punishments that they could give away were fines, taking away of positions, excommunication, and less serious crimes.