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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In Saxon law. A general assembly of the peaple in a town or shire. It appears to have had judicial funetions of a limited nature, and also to have discharged political offices, such as deliberating upon the affairs of the commonwealth or complaining of misgovernment, and probably possessed considerable powers of local self-government. Ths name was also given to any sort of a popnlar assembly. See Spelman; Manwoed; Cunningham.