Definition of "court-leet" []

• A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet. (noun)

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• "In each ward was held a court-leet, or ward-mote, dating from the time of Alfred, though the actual institution of wards by that name is no later than the reign of"
• "No man shall be capable of having a court-leet, or leet-men, but a proprietor, landgrave, cassique, or lord of a manor."
• "The town was said to have had a court-leet about the time of the Conquest, but the borough was first incorporated in the seventeenth century by James I."