Commote
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
or COMORTH. A contribution which was gathered at marriages, and when young priests said or sung the first masses.
Prohibited by 26 Hen. VIII. c. 6. Cowell.
COMMOTE (Law Lat. commotum, from Brit, cymhod; cym, together, bod, being or dwelling; or from cwm/mwd, a province). Half a cantred or hundred in Wales, containing, properly, fifty villages.
St. Walliae, 12 Edw. I. 21 Hen. VIII. c. 26.
Spelman, voc. "Commotum." The fourth part of a hundred, according to Mr. Barrington who A great seigniory or lordship, including one or more manors.
Co. Litt. 5a.
Part of a seigniory. Thel. Dig. lib.
8, e. 2, § 18.