| 单词 | free suitor |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfree suitor free suitor n. now historical any of the free tenants who were entitled to attend a manorial court and to participate in its judgements, and who were justiciable there in respect of their holdings. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > feudal courts > attendance at > one who suitorc1400 in-suitor?a1600 free suitor1618 sectator1860 1618 J. Wilkinson Treat. Statutes conc. Coroners & Sherifes 108 Then call the free suiters and dozonors one after another. a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) I. 195 Which in the Court of this Lord in Radclive street shee denyed; whereupon the freesuters there gave judgment vpon his life. 1713 G. Jacob Compl. Court-keeper 2 This Court [sc. the court baron] cannot subsist without two Free-Suitors or customary Copyholders. 1799 Rep. Court Common Pleas during Time Ld. Chief Justice Willes 619 An amercement at a court-baron on a free suitor of the manor. 1890 H. Hall Court Life under Plantagenets (1899) i. 21 Meanwhile the seneschal had taken his seat, the free suitors ranged themselves in front of the dais, and the court was proclaimed by one of the lord's officers. 1996 R. Evans in Z. Razi & R. Smith Medieval Society & Manor Court vii. 233 At the session of 3 February 1289 another dispute over succession to a free tenement was adjourned because insufficient free suitors were present. < as lemmas |
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