I'm learning abt punishment and crime that happened in England and how persons had to undergo ordeals by trials. Question I'm having trouble with is why people and whole village in general had to come as first finders and be in mercy when they didn't observe finding body?
And what were ideologies of this society that contributed to need of such a duty ?
First finder means the first that found the dead body. But I'm still having hard time with these questions I looked online everywhere.