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Chirgemot

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

CHIRCHGEMOTE, CIRCGEMOTE, or kirkmote. (Saxon, circgemote, from circ, ciric, or cyric, a church, and gemot, a meeting or assembly). In Saxon law. An ecclesiastical court or assembly (forum ecclesiasticum); a synod; a meeting in a church or vestry. Blount; Spelman; LL. Hen. I. cc.

4, 8; 4 Inst. 321; Cunningham.