Shire
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A county
Shire clerk. The under-sheriff. Also, a.clerk in the old county court, who was deputy to the under-sheriff. Cowel. Shire-man. The ancient title in England of the judge of the county, by whom trials for land, &c., were determined.
Tomlins. Shire-mote.
The assises of the shire, or the assembly of the people, was so called by the Saxons. It was nearly, if not exactly, the same as the scyr-gemote, and in most respects corresponded with what were afterwards called the county courts.
Brown.