What is COURT-BARON? Definition of COURT-BARON in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
In English law. A court which, although not one of record, is incident to every manor, and cannot be severed therefrom. It was ordained for the maintenance of the services and duties stipulated for by lords of manors, and for the purpose of determining actions of a personal nature, where the debt or damage was under forty shillings. Wharton; 1 Poll. & Maitl. Hist. E. L. 580.
Customary court-baron is one appertaining entirely to copyholders. 3 Bl.Comm. 33.
Freeholders' court-baron is one held before the freeholders who owe suit and service to the man or. It is the court-baron proper.
Coke (1st Inst. 58a) speaks of the Court Baron as being of the two natures just indicated. Blackstone, 3 Comm. 33, says that, though in their nature distinct, they are frequently confounded together. Later writers doubt if there were two courts; 1 Poll. & Maitl.Hist.E.L. 580.
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