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Sheriff's tourn

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

A court of record in England, held twice every year, within a month after Easter and Michaelmas, before the sheriff, in different parts of the county. It is, indeed, only the turn or rotation of the sheriff to keep a court-leet in each respective hundred. It is the great court-leet of the county, as the county court is the court-baron ; for out of this, for the ease of the sheriff, was taken the court-leet or view of frank-pledge.

4 Bl. Comm. 273.