In medieval England, frankpledge was a system of law enforcement and policing in which members of society were mutually responsible for the behavior of their peers. The system included everyone in the community except the highest nobility and their households.

What is the process of the frankpledge system?

a system of dividing a community into tithings or groups of ten men, each member of which was responsible for the conduct of the other members of his group and for the assurance that a member charged with a breach of the law would be produced at court.

What is the difference between tithing and the frankpledge system?

As nouns the difference between tithing and frankpledge

is that tithing is a rural division of land, originally corresponding to ten households under the frank-pledge system while frankpledge is a legal system, based on tithings, in anglo-saxon england, in which members were held responsible for each other's conduct.