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The pillary was used for punishments of petty crimes. Under the system of serfdom, such crimes were under the jurisdiction of courts leet, which provided trials by a jury of freemen, who were often peasants themselves. A typical crime would be a violation of a pledge, misuse of property, misconduct. The legal codes of the times were rather flexible, particularly for crimes that were of little interest to a monarch.

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