INTRODUCTION. 
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The court of criminal and civil judicature con¬ 
sists of a Judge * and two Assessors, with a 
Secretary. All sentences must be signed by the 
Stiftsamptman, and an appeal lies from this court 
to the supreme court of judicature at Copenhagen. 
Iceland knows of no trials by jury; for the Judges 
and Assessors act both as jurors and judges. 
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• The Landfogued of Iceland is the Treasurer of 
the island, and to that office the one of Byefogued 
is generally annexed, which is the Master of the 
Police in the town of Reikevig. 
The laws in use in Iceland are the Danish, 
with some few exceptions and alterations of 
trifling importance, adapted to the local cir¬ 
cumstances. 
Both the civil and criminal courts (called the 
Althing) are now held at Reikevig, whither they 
were lately removed from Thingevalle, which was 
long the seat of justice, though for some time 
after the arrival of the first settlers Ingulf and 
his successors held the court where it now is. 
The punishments for capital crimes are at present 
the same as those in Denmark, and the criminal 
* The present judge is Mr. Stephensen, who is generally 
called by his Danish title of Tatsroed, or Counsellor of State. 
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