A German oath skull,16th - 17th skull missing the lower patination with traces of top of the skull shows two lines of engraved crosses surrounded by 14 vehmic courts reached the height of their power in the 1st half of the 15th century,and in the growing uncertainty in justice took on more and more the character of strictly organised hidden bands of the "wise men",who were bound by oath to their duty of complete the vehmic courts never resorted to the use of torture,they spread,Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available

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