. on the fundamental contrast between popular law and privilege. People`s law is the set of rules, formulated or not, that can be invoked as an expression of the legal conscience of the people in general or of the communities that compose them. It is of tribal origin and. Over time, the rights deriving from royal privileges took precedence over the rights of the people in many ways and themselves became the starting point for a new legal system – the feudal system. Old English follows “ordinary, profane people; Men; people, nation, tribe; Quantity; Truppe, Heer”, from Proto-Germanic *folkam (source also Old Saxon Folc, Old Frisian people, Middle Dutch people, Dutch people, Old High German Folc, German people “Volk”). Perhaps originally “crowd of warriors”: compare the Old Norse “people”, also “army, county” and Lithuanian pulkas “crowd”, Old Church Slavic pluku “division of an army”, both probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic. Old English folcstede could mean both “place of residence” and “battlefield”. According to Watkins, from PIE *ple-go-, attached form of root *pele- (1) “fill”, which would make it related (with the same ancestor) to the Greek plethos “people, quantity”. Replaced by humans in most senses. Usually a collective noun in Middle English, but the plural is attested from 15c. Old English folc was frequently used in the formation of compounds (59 are listed in the Clark Hall dictionary), such as folccwide “popular proverb”, folcgemot “town or district assembly”; folcwoh “Public deception”. The modern use of folklore as an adjective dates back to about 1850 (see folklore).
The old law of land ownership, inheritance, contracts, usual fines was mainly governed by popular law; The bailiffs, employed by the king and the great men, were to take care of local and rural affairs according to popular law. This chapter distinguishes between abstract legal pluralism and popular law pluralism. Depending on their form and function, abstract legal concepts in pluralistic legal literature can be classified into one of two broad categories: the internal order of associations or institutionalized systems of rules. However, both types of legal concepts inevitably lead to excessive inclusion by encompassing social phenomena that are not normally considered laws, resulting in intractable problems. Popular legal pluralism identifies coexisting legal forms in relation to what people collectively consider law, examined through a socio-historical lens that examines how legal forms vary across social contexts and change over time. It also articulates three categories of law applied in this book: Community law, regime law and interpolitical law. This approach provides a reasonable account of the law and legal pluralism that is useful to researchers, development practitioners, social scientists and legal theorists. The Danes, the Welsh and these main divisions between peoples` rights persist even when tribal kingdoms disappear and people are concentrated in one or two empires.
a) The Anglo-Saxon legal system can only be understood if the fundamental opposition between popular law and privilege is recognized. Add “right of the people” to the meanings in the gloss. and cf. The main centers of formulation and application of popular law in the 10th and 11th centuries were shire moots, while empire jokes generally placed themselves on the higher terrain of state opportunism, although they sometimes used ideas of popular rights. (You can find people in the World Legal Encyclopedia and the Etimology of More Terms.) From: Volksrecht in der Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History”. Our editors will review what you have submitted and decide if the article needs to be revised. In a narrower sense, as commonly used in constitutional law, the totality of citizens of a state or nation vested with political power for political purposes (the electorate). The totality of individuals who make up a state or nation. n. government in law enforcement, as in People v. Capone.
Such a case may also be replaced by State v. Davis or in Federal Prosecutors, United States v. Miller. PEOPLE. A State; like the people of New York State; a nation in its collective and political capacity. 4 R. T. 783. See 6 Pet. S.
C. Rep. 467. 2. The word persons appears in an insurance policy. The insurer insures against “the imprisonment of all kings, princes and peoples”. He does not intend to insure himself against a lawless mob that may be guilty of attacking or arresting a ship. 2 marshes. Ins.
508. Empty Body politic; Nation. The laws of the people; in particular, the laws of the Salian Franks. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Tranche 1 Landleute; derived from the French Bourre (lat. floccus.) a woolly lock, because they covered their heads with such things. Blount.