[1] From Old English, meaning 'Statutes'.
 
[2] 'The West Australian' 14 January 1999.
 
[3] F.L Attenborough, ed. and trans., The Laws of the Earliest English Kings (Cambridge, 1922), p.5.
 
[4] Ibid, p.25.
 
[5] Ibid.
 
[6] Ibid, p 27.
 
[7] A.J. Baker, An Introduction to English Legal History (London: Butterworths, 1971), p.5.
 
[8] Attenborough, op cit., p.63.
 
[9] "blood money" compensation for victims of crime in lieu of capital punishment.
 
[10] compensation.
 
[11] " borh " .
 
[12] " borh - bryce ".
 
[13] " wed - bryce ".
 
[14] the price for his life.
 
[15] the price of the King's life.
 
[16] known as " frith ".
 
[17] " bohr " or " mund ".
 
[18] " angylde ".
 
[19] master.
 
[20] a freeman.
 
[21] " bof ".
 
[22] " theow ".
 
[23] " hloth ", crowd or band of robbers.
 
[24] homola, a punishment usually imposed on slaves which was also the mark of a madman or fool.
 
[25] house.