The costs of defence and administration are heavy, and the scale of social services is large for a fairly poor country.

The costs of defence at the various trials had ruined the community financially as it had to sell stock and land to meet the debt.

During the 1980s, the question of Jersey making an annual contribution towards the United Kingdom's costs of defence and international representation undertaken on behalf of Jersey was raised.

The Domesday survey was prompted by ignorance of the state of land holding in England, as well as the result of the costs of defence measures in England and renewed war in France.

Law replied arguing that it would be impossible to effectively do so, and that with the increasing costs of defence and social programmes it would be impossible to raise the necessary capital except by comprehensive tariff reform.

The organisation's Harriet McCulloch said, "She is clearly not a drug king pin - she has no money to pay for a lawyer, for the travel costs of defence witnesses or even for essentials like food and water.

Moreover, useful as the clergy's and particularly Winchelsey's aid was to the magnates in the summer of 1297, the laity had been encouraged to think that the clergy, especially because they did not fight, should bear a significant share of the financial costs of defence.

The Berner Obergericht refused the obligation of the private plaintiffs to pay the costs of defence of the acquitted defendants explaining that "the one who circulates such sort of most vulgar instigating articles has to pay himself the costs resulting from them."