TY - JOUR
AB - BOOK REVIEWS 101 actions and conduct which we criticize were viewed with great tolerance in earlier days. The office of lawman maintained its status throughout all the shifting times. It survived centuries of Danish administration and long periods of legal decay. Until the office of Soren,skriver became a judicial office in the course of the seventeenth century the office of lawman was the only judicial office aside from church and military courts and vice-lawmen. The lawman had the law book and was the only one in the area who had the capacity to construe and interpret it with authority. He was the exponent of the na­ tional inheritance whose symbolic expression was the "Law of Saint Olaf". The office of lawman at Trondheim retained during this long period the same jurisdictional limits as the older law of the Frostathing. And it was the only institution in the district which preserved a connection with the Frostathing and the old legal institutions in Trtf>ndelag. The Frostathing with the old machinery of the logretta maintained itself up to 1600, a fact which shows the power of tradition. Under the decree of August 11, 1797, the office of lawman was abolished and supplanted 
TI - A History of English Law
JO - American Journal of Legal History
DO - 10.2307/844411
DA - 1957-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/a-history-of-english-law-PsWm2jc1iM
SP - 101
EP - 102
VL - 1
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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