!!!Malefizordnung

Malefizordnung (derived from Latin "malefactor"), name for 
the system of judicature implemented by  Maximilian I for Tyrol 
in 1499. "Malefiz" is an old German legal term meaning bad 
deed or crime; the Malefizrecht pertained to the "hohe 
Recht" or Blutrecht (right to administer the death penalty) which 
in the Middle Age was a prerogative of the Regent.  
Halsgerichtsordnung

!Literature
E. Schmidt, Die Maximilianischen Halsgerichtsordnungen, 
1949.


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