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Court-leet
some manors, the jury of the Court-leet chose the mayor, port-reeve, or other chief municipal officer of the borough or town to which the leet jurisdiction was appended; but the (English) Muncipal Corporations Act,1883, reorganized all such
Westminster the First, Statute of
of wards; regulates the levying of tolls, which were imposed arbitrarily by the barons, and by cities and boroughs; corrects and retrains the power of the king's escheator and other officers; amends the criminal law, putting the … to render it cheap, simple, and expeditious, Lord Compbell's Lives of the Chancellors v. 1, p. 167; 2 Reeves, c. 9, p. 107. Certain parts of this Act are repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act, 1863,
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