Why this word is great
FOLKRIGHT — [Noun] The common law or right of the people, especially under the customary laws of early England, rooted in immemorial usage rather than sovereign decree. From Middle English, from Old English folcriht, a compound of folc ("people, folk") and riht ("law, right"). Unlike "privilege" (a special immunity carved from the common stock) or "statute" (a law declared and inscribed from above), folkright is jurisprudence that rises, like groundwater, from the lived habits of the many. It is the worn path across a common field, the understood weight of a loaf for a penny, the binding handshake witnessed by the village—the quiet, persistent hum of a people's justice beneath the noise of crowns and parliaments.