#thejudiciary

📖 The Judiciary 📖

✒ The administration of justice, which is universally regarded today as a state function,

was originally a private matter, the state having no machinery for its administration.

In the primitive state, disputes and custom breaches were settled by compromise or by an individual or family retaliation and vengeance.

In private offenses, a blood feud resulted, later taking the milder form of a money payment for injuries inflicted.

For more serious offenses or “bootless” crimes, the offender was driven out from the community and made an outlaw for which money could not atone.