Feudal Law. A tenant obligated to attend and participate in a superior's court, performing certain duties such as voting in elections.

A suitor (in a Baronial Court) dwelling within the Barony.

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…

Law. One who is bound to ‘suit of court’. Now historical. (Perhaps merely Law Latin.)