单词 | honour court |
释义 | > as lemmashonour court honour court n. historical in later use a court held within a (former) feudal honour or seigniory (cf. sense 6). ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > feudal courts > other manorial, etc., courts leet1292 view of frankpledge1495 court leet1588 customary court1628 leet-court1651 honour court1661 knighten court1701 suit court1755 1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) at Honour There are no Honors, but such as did originally belong to the King, and have since been given in Fee to Noble men. Of this sort are the Honors of Windsor, Greenwich, Tickhil, &c. And Courts there held are called Honor-Courts. 1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Honor Courts, are Courts held within the Honors aforesaid. 1815 R. W. Dickson & W. Stevenson Gen. View Agric. Lancs. i. 1 Noblemen..kept their Honour Courts yearly, or oftener.., with great pomp and ceremony. 1996 R. Sharpe in F. A. C. Mantello & A. G. Rigg Medieval Lat. 332 The most local level of court records to be preserved are the rolls of manor and honor courts. < as lemmas |
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