There is no time-limit to the antiquity of a jurisdiction which was necessary for the assessment of material damages, in such cases, in tribal society. This jurisdiction was also, we believe, appealed to in pleas of accidental homicide, as well as in cases where the slayer was unknown. But there is a vast gulf between local and central jurisdiction in such matters. Synoekism and ‘pollution’ were the two factors which bridged that gulf, but that result cannot have been earlier than the seventh century B.C. Hence we assert that the two events which are connected by Pausanias belong to two different strands of development. Finally, in regard to the homicide court at Phreatto, legend is particularly at fault. Is this because the court was established very late, or is it that the conception on which the court was based could not easily have found analogies in the distant past? The latter, we believe, is the more correct explanation. The court at Phreatto was clearly and unmistakably derived from the religion of ‘pollution.’ The defendant pleaded from the deck of a ship and was not permitted to set foot on the shore.[26] This court had jurisdiction in the event of a person, who was already exiled for manslaughter, being afterwards, before his exile terminated, indicted for murder.[26] We may refer both accusations to the same act or to different acts. We may suppose, either that new evidence had been obtained which destroyed the plea of manslaughter guilt which had once been successfully advanced, or that an entirely new deed of blood had been laid at the door of the exile. It would have been clearly very difficult to find archaic facts so similar in general outline to such events that they could have been perverted so as to form archaic precedents. Legend[27] revealed no better precedent than the story of Teucer pleading innocence for the death of Ajax! This plea was made to Telamon of Salamis, before Salamis became Athenian, and is therefore entirely irrelevant. The name Phreatto seems to be derived from φρέαρ, φρέατος, which denoted an enclosed area of the sea near the Peiraeus where the court sat.[28] The origin of this court belongs to the pollution era, but that fact does not prove that its origin was very much later than that of the other courts, if we regard these other courts as centres of official State judicature functioning compulsorily under the influence of the ‘pollution’ religion. We maintain that there were courts for homicide from time immemorial in tribal Greece. But it was the seventh century that saw the birth of the Attic murder courts in that particular rôle which they fulfilled, with some slight modifications in respect of the distribution of labour in historical times.