Shire - Law Dictionary Search Results
Shiremote
Shiremote, an assembly of the county or the shire at the
Soc, Sok, Soka
or privilege to administer justice and execute laws; also a shire, circuit, or territory, See Merttens v. Hill, (1901) 1 Ch
Westminster the First, Statute of
been made to influence the election of knights of the shire, from the time when they were instituted. It contains a
Trithing
Trithing, the third part of a shire or province; a riding. The county of York is divided
Turn, or Tourn
from the sheriff making a turn of circuit about his shire, and holding this Court in each respective hundred, 2 Hawk.
Wapentake, or Wapentachium
Wapentake, or Wapentachium, synonymous with 'hundred' in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Nottingham-shire, Derbyshire, Rutland, and Leicestershire; the term is said to be...
Reeve
and the hundred-moot was not a preliminary stage to the shire-moot at all.....But after the conquest the hundred assembly, now called
Schirrens-geld
Schirrens-geld [fr. shiregeld, Sax.], a tax paid to sheriffs for keeping the shire
Lath, or lathe
In some counties there is an intermediate division between the shire and the hundred-as lathes in Kent, and rapes in Sussex-each
Rape-reeve
an officer who used to act in subordination to the shire-reeve.
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