It persecuted and prosecuted dissenters and recusants who stood in its path and it proclaimed its right so to do in innumerable sermons and treatises.
Many other examples, ranging from neighbours arguing over trespass to alleged thieves being prosecuted before sheriff courts, could be given.
Violence between spouses, partners, parents or children has been less likely to be prosecuted than 'public ' violence.
Democracies require that criminals be apprehended with evidence and prosecuted through the legal system before being sentenced.
Although their treachery was irrefutable, the authorities thought it wiser not to prosecute.
To be sure, it is not at all easy to uncover decisions not to pursue or prosecute thieves, or to understand just why investigations failed.
The concern with prosecuting the transgressors of enclosure rather than the violators of chastity - the latter always entailed the former - reflects developments in secular legislation.
How this revolution was to be prosecuted was never systematically discussed, nor were other options explored.
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