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Comitissa

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In old English law

A countess; an earl's wife. Towns. PI.

149.

COMITIVA (Law Lat. from comes, q. v.) In old English law. The dignity and office of a comes (count or earl); the same with what was afterwards called comitat/us.

Spelman.

Used in the Register, in the sense of comitatus, a train, suite, following, attendance, or household.

Reg. Orig. 23, 24.