DOMBEC
[Saxon, Judgment book.] The name given by the
Saxons to the code of laws by which they lived.
Several Saxon kings published dombecs, also
spelled dombocs. Dombecs were also known as
dome-books or doom-books. The dombec com-
piled during the ninth-century reign of Alfred
the Great was among the most important
because it contained the law for the entire king-
dom of England, encompassing the principal
maxims of COMMON LAW, the penalties for
crimes, and the forms of judicial proceedings.
A dombec is not the same as the Domesday
