What is COURT-LEET? Definition of COURT-LEET in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
The name of an English court of record held once in the year, and not oftener, within a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet; being the king's court granted by charter to the lords of those hundreds or manors. Its office was to view the frankpledges,—that is, the freemen within the liberty; to present by jury crimes happening within the jurisdiction; and to punish trivial misdemeanors. It has now, however, for the most part, fallen into total desuetude; though in some manors a court-leet is still periodically held for the transaction of the administrative business of the manor. Mozley & Whitley; Odgers, C. L. 965; Powell, Courts Leet; 1 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law; Inderwick, King's Peace, 11; 1 Poll. & Maitl. 568; 4 Steph. Com. 306.
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