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† ˈportmote Obs. exc. Hist.
Forms: 3 portimote, 4 portemot, (6 portemounte), 7 portmoote, 6– portmote; portmoot.
[f. port n.1, n.2 + ME. imote, moot n. = OE. type *port-ᵹemót: cf. burh-ᵹemót.]
1. The court of a borough; a borough-mote. (Esp. used of cities and boroughs in the County Palatine of Chester.)
[1267Charter Hen. III in Rymer Fœdera (1816) I. 471 Prohibeo et precipio ne ullo modo respondeant, nisi illorum proprio portimoto. a1377Abingdon Rolls (Camden) 34 De portemot', pede pulverizato, et assisa fracta.] 1574Acts Privy Council (1894) VIII. 228 The same to be openly redde at the next Portemounte [at Chester] after the receipt hereof. 1601Act 43 Eliz. c. 15 §1 Any originall Writ or Writs of Covenant..retornable before the Mayor of the saide Citie for the tyme beinge, in the Portmoote Courte to be holden within the saide Citie [of Chester]. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v., Portmotes are also held in some inland towns, as at Knolst in Cheshire. 1765Act 5 Geo. III, c. 26 Preamble, Courts Baron, Courts of Admiralty, Courts of Portmote, and Leets. 1890Gross Gild Merch. I. 64 The general laws of the burghal community emanated from the burghmotes or assemblies (Court Leet, Burghmote, Portmote, &c.). 1902(title) The Portmote or Court Leet Records of the Borough or Town and Royal Manor of Salford. 1951D. M. Stenton Eng. Society Early Middle Ages 177 The ancient borough court, the portmoot, was presided over by the reeve.
2. The court of a (legal) sea-port town.
(Perhaps orig. an error of the Law Dicts.)
1598J. Manwood Lawes Forest xxiii. §1 (1615) 217/2 Portmote is euer in a Hauen towne, for it is the Court of the Port or Hauen. 1607Cowell Interpr., Portemote,..signifieth a Court kept in hauen townes... It is sometime called the Portmoote Court, an. 43 Eliz. cap. 15 [cf. quot. 1601 in 1]. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. vii. 264 These legal ports were undoubtedly at first assigned by the crown; since to each of them a court of portmote is incident, the jurisdiction of which must flow from the royal authority. |