Gemot, a mote or moote, meeting, public assembly. The various kinds were-(1) The folc-gemot, or general assembly of the people, whether it was held in a city or town or consisted of the whole shire. It was sometimes summoned by the ringing of the mootbell. Its regular meetings were annual. (2) the shire-gemot, or county Court, which met twice during the year. (3) The burg-gemot, which met thrice in the year. (4) The hundred-gemot, or hundred Court, which met twelve times a year in the Saxon ages; but afterwards a full, perhaps an extraordinary, meeting of every hundred was ordered to be held twice a year. This was the sheriff's tourn or view of franc-pledge. (5) The halle-gemot, or the Court-baron. (6) The wardemotus, Anc. Inst. Eng.
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