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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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