The King's Peace

The king's primary source of income the early kings, was essentially the produce from their various estates. They didn't have much in the way of money coming in that was liquid and so they're looking for ways to get money. Well, one avenue was the king's peace. He would declare that a a foreign traveller a in the kingdom would not have the protection of a local tithing or hundred. And so if that individual was attacked, the king would step in a and pursue justice. But it was the pursuit of justice in the sense that the king got the compensation, not the traveller. So you you lose that link between punishment and restitution, and it becomes punishment with no restitution to