Michel Gemot
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
or MICEL GEMOTE (Saxon, great meeting or assembly). One of the names of the general council immemorially held in England.
1 Bl. Comm. 147.
One of the great councils of a king and noblemen in Saxon times. These great councils were severally called wittena gemotes, afterwards micel synods, and mioel gemotes.
Cowell (Ed. 1727); Cunningham.
See "Michel Synoth." MICHEL SYNOTH (Saxon, great council). One of the names of the general council immemorially held in England.
1 Bl. Comm. 147.
The Saxon kings usually called a "synod," or mixed council, consisting both of ecclesiastics and the nobility, three times a year, which was not properly called a "parlia-