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Gemotum

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. [Sax. gemote, mote.] In Saxon law. A public meeting, or court. Si quis gemotum, id est placitum, supersedeat ter, &c.; if any one shall absent himself from court three times, &c.

LL.

Athelstan, c.

20.

Omnis homo pacem habeat eundo ad gemotum, et rediens de gemoto, nisi probatus fur fuerit; every man shall have peace, (that is, privilege from arrest,) while going to court, and returning from court, unless he be proved to be a thief.

LL.

Edw. Conf. c.

35. Spelman.