"It was chiefly owing to the violent greed of feudal barons and medieval
ecclesiastical powers that the rights of the injured party were
gradually infringed upon, and finally, to a large extent, appropriated
by these authorities, who exacted a double vengeance, indeed, upon the
offender, by forfeiting his property to themselves instead of to his
victim, and then punishing him by the dungeon, the torture, the stake or
the gibbet. But the original victim of wrong was practically ignored."
William Tallack
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