In England (and subsequently in Ireland): a subdivision of a county or shire, having its own court; also formerly applied to the court itself: cf. c…

A shire-court. (Cf. shire-moot, n.) Obsolete.

The judicial court of such a subdivision.

The judicial assembly of the shire in Old English times.

attributive: wapentake court, wapentake fine.

in English History the court having civil and criminal jurisdiction within a territorial hundred.

the assembly of the hundred, the hundred-court.