Folk Right

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. ❋ Various (N/A)

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. ❋ Various (N/A)

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. ❋ Various (N/A)

Danes, Welshmen, and these main folk-right divisions remain even when tribal kingdoms disappear and the people is concentrated in one or two realms. ❋ Various (N/A)

Add "folk-right" to the meanings in the Gloss.; and cf. ❋ Robert Sharp (1879)

(a) The Anglo-Saxon legal system cannot be understood unless one realizes the fundamental opposition between folk-right and privilege. ❋ Various (N/A)

[i came] out of [jane's] and [whiffed] some folks gettin' right john will never be far from where there are folks gettin' right ❋ Michael Foolsley (2009)