单词 | shire-moot |
释义 | shire-mootn. Historical. The judicial assembly of the shire in Old English times. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > court of shire or part of shire hundredc1000 shire?c1225 wapentakea1500 shire-moot1614 wapentake court1658 hundred-court1671 hundred-mote1839 a1036 in Thorpe Diplom. Angl. (1865) 336 Her swutelaþ on ðissum gewrite þæt an scirgemot sæt æt Ægelnoðes stane be Cnutes dæge cinges.] 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 225 Amongst Knouts Collections, one is, that twise in the yeer, the Scyregemot, i. the Shiremote (that which is now called the Shirifes Turne) should be held, and that in it should sit the Bishop of the Diocesse, and the Ealdorman. 1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. (new ed.) I. 78 The Shire-mote or County Court met twice a year. 1890 J. K. Hosmer Anglo-Saxon Freedom 82 The time was coming when the broad suffrage of the shire~moots was also to be greatly curtailed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1614 |
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