Definition of "wardmote" [ward•mote]

• A meeting of the inhabitants of a ward. (noun)
• A court formerly held in each ward of London, England for trying defaults in matters relating to the watch, police, and the like. (noun)

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• "He sat in the parliament of 1523, and towards the close of that year served on a wardmote inquest for Bread Street Ward."
• "The City of London represents a county, and as such is divided into hundreds, called wards; each having its own wardmote, presided over by its own alderman."
• "The latter, of course, consisted of the aggregate body of citizens, anciently designated immensa communitas, or folkmote, who were annually to elect four persons at the wardmote for each ward to represent the commonalty on all occasions of a deliberative nature."