Do you think GRRM simply chose to ignore things like judges, sheriffs, and other components of a medieval justice system for the sake of his personal worldbuilding or is he genuinely unaware of historical institutions like the Court of Common Pleas, reeves, and assizes? Seems like a significant oversight, especially when he talks about how Jaehaerys I established a unitary legal code but we have basically no information on how a formal, technical legal system actually operates in Westeros.

Probably chose to ignore, but that’s one of those things I want to ask GRRM if I ever meet him. 

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