Compare and contrast the administration of law in two dynastic states.

The question requires that candidates give an account of the similarities and differences between the administration of law in two dynastic states, referring to both throughout. The two states may or may not be from the same region and they may or may not have been contemporaneous with each other. Candidates may refer to the methods by which laws were enforced, reviewed and reformed; the structure, organization and functionality of law courts; tensions between civil and common law; the role of religious authorities in legal administration; the centralization or decentralization of legal systems; the role of trial by combat or battle. Both similarities and differences must be clearly indicated but there does not need to be an equal number of each.