Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems

[jason taylor]

Originally Posted by The Colonel

IIRC this was amongst the delights of feudal Europe - most places had several conflicting power centres fighting over each case (guild, crown, local lord, church etc., not to mention specialised operations like market courts). Many cases could be sandbagged indefinitely just whilst jurisdiction was established.

In Paul Johnson's History of Christianity, it tells how for a long time in the Middle Ages the Church dealt disproportionately with litigation. One example he gave was a Pope exasperated by a parish and it's bishopric spending years arguing jurisdiction.