Stick in the Law – Legal Symbolism of Holding, Using, Breaking and Throwing a Stick
Stick in the Law – Legal Symbolism of Holding, Using, Breaking and Throwing a Stick

Summary/Abstract: It would be hard to find a person, who has not heard the saying: they have broken the stick over him, they tossed a stick under his feet etc. What do these sayings mean is the topic of the following article that wishes to introduce the symbolisms of the stick in history, because until quite recently a number of acts and procedures, considered to be legal nature, could not be performed without this object. A stick was necessary to make these acts legally valid. In the article the authors mainly aim to introduce the stick that symbolized judicial power, but also the powers of a number of persons.

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