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in common law originate in the Germanic system of compensatory fines for wrongs, with no clear distinction between crimes and other wrongs. In Anglo-Saxon law, most wrongs required payment in money paid to the wronged person or their clan. Fines in the form of wite were paid to the king or holder of a court for disturbances of public order, while the fine of weregild was imposed on those

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