Raising hand
Raising hand is a term from the older, medieval German legal language, especially the Sachsenspiegel, and referred to the catching of the criminal in the act, that is, "the hand is still raised that does the crime". A manual act justified the immediate punishment of the perpetrator without lengthy evidence. In addition to the case that the criminal himself had been arrested, this also meant the arrest under circumstances that clearly revealed his perpetrator ( glancing appearance ) and the case that the perpetrator openly admitted his guilt ( gouty mouth ).
literature
- Paul Wigand: The Femgericht Westphalens, presented from the sources and explained with still unprinted documents. Hamm, Schulz and Wundermann, 1825 Link to Google Books
Individual evidence
- ^ Femgerichte Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 6. Leipzig 1906, pp. 411–412. Zeno.org, accessed June 27, 2019