Peace money (pacification due)

In Germany, a levy used to be paid to the public authorities when they had to intervene in feuds and put an end to hostilities. It was not until the “Eternal Public Peace” adopted in Worms in 1495 that vigilante justice (individuals who take the law into their own hands by trying and/or punishing another person without any legal authority) and the law of the jungle were abolished. – Tax (POENA PACIS) imposed by Sweden on German Protestants after the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 as compensation for expenses incurred by Sweden in fighting the Catholic League, also called satisfaction money. – A payment that a condemned man used to have to make to the judge (FREDUS). – Sometimes said in older documents for expiatory money. – See fine.

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