| 单词 | manor court |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmanor court manor court n. a court through which the lord of a manor exercised jurisdiction over his tenants in civil and minor criminal matters (chiefly in the medieval period, though continued later in adapted form in some places; see quot. 1992); cf. court-baron n. ΚΠ a1648 J. Godbolt Rep. Certain Cases Courts of Rec. Westm. (1652) Table sig. Nnn3 Steward of a Mannor-Court. 1754 G. Jeffreys Misc. 82 For, free from rent, I only then resort, As bound in duty, to the Manor Court. 1786 W. Gilpin Observ. Mountains & Lakes Cumberland (1788) II. 231 His manor-courts are kept with great strictness. 1890 F. Pollock Oxf. Lect. 130 It will not do, therefore, to assume that the manor court was made out of an older township court. 1992 Speculum 67 375 [In Laxton, England] decisions [concerning grazing] are reached and enforced, as in the Middle Ages, at a manor court. < as lemmas |
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