Court-baron Sentence Examples

The word is also used of the body of tenants attending a manorial court, or of the court in a court baron (consisting of the tenants that do homage and make inquiries and presentments, termed a homage jury).

A court-leet and view of frank pledge used to be held half-yearly at Easter and Michaelmas, and a court-baron in May.

The yearly court-leet and court-baron are still held in October.

A court-leet and court-baron used to be held half-yearly, but both are now obsolete.

Up to 1891 the lord of the manor held a court-leet and court-baron annually in November, but in that year Lord Lilford sold to the local board the market tolls, stallages and pickages, and since this sale the courts have lapsed.

It has been usual to make a distinction between court baron and court leet 1 as being separate courts, but in the early history of the court leet no such distinction 1 The history of the word "leet" is very obscure.

Some time in the later middle ages the court baron when exercising these powers gained the name of leet, and, later, of "court leet."

The lord of the manor still holds the ancient court-leet and court-baron halfyearly in May and November, in which cognizance is taken of breaches of agreement among the tenants, especially concerning the repair of roads and cultivation of lands.

The vestry represented the old assembly of the township, and retained so much of its business as had not been insensibly transferred to the court-baron and court-leet.

It is now the property of Lord Leconfield, who holds a court baron yearly at Rosthwaite.

The business of the court baron or court leet is normally divided into different sections.

Kingsbridge was never represented in parliament or incorporated by charter, the government being by a portreeve, and down to the present day the steward of the manor holds a court leet and court baron and appoints a portreeve and constables.