How were laws enforced in Greece?

Answer 1

Each city-state had its own laws and customs. Civil matters were enforced by heads of families, both within the families and between families.

Political and property laws were the responsibility of a magistrate and a council. Punishments ranged from banishment and restriction of rights to execution.

In Athens enforcement of their decisions was undertaken by a group known as The Ten, who arranged the whippings and executions ordered. Other cities had similar arrangements.

Answer 2

in athens, the city had an assembly. The assembly invited everyone to vote on the laws. If enough people voted on that law then that would be considered one of the laws of ancient athens.

Another View:

Laws were generally related to public affairs of the state, as opposed to the endless laws of today which intrude into every aspect of peoples' lives.

Civil enforcement was the province of the head of family, who kept control within the family and negotiated settlements between families. The Greek word dike, which we translate today as justice, really meant to them 'settlement'. To keep a society running smoothly and avoid venettas, they sorted things out, rather than trying to have state-run trials and punishments.

Depending on the political system in a particular city-state, the public laws were produced by a council, or passed by votes in assembly. They were implemented by a group appointed to conduct executions or banishments -the options were limited. Prisons as we know them - places of punishment or reform - did not exist. A prison cell was a place to hold someone pending execution, beating or expulsion as ordered by a court.

A civil matter settled by a family or between families could be by execution, or overwhelmingly commonly, by compensation payment.

Answer 3

It varied from one city-state to another.

In Athens, juries of several heard charges brought by individuals and the defence by the respondent. If the jury decided on guilty, they then heard the punishment put forward by both sides, and decided on one or the other.

The punishment decided on (one or the other, no in between) was carried out by public slaves - it might be anything - such things as compensation offered by the convicted, supporting a state warship for a year, exile, or death by cutting the throat and dumping the body in a cess pit.

Answer 4

They were made by the assembly and approved by the Senate

Answer 5

cuz the thought da greek force wut get him fo trackn the otha people down.

Answer 6

it was other people that leave and come every day