Sheriff's Tourn
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A court of record in England, held twice each year, within a month after Easter and Michaelmas, before the sheriff, in different parts of the county. It is, indeed, only the turn or circuit of the sheriff to keep a court leet in each respective hundred. It is the great court leet of the county, as the county court is the court baron; for out of this, for the ease of the sheriff, was taken the court leet or view of frank pledge {q. v.) 4 Steph. Comm. 339; 4 Bl. Comm. 273.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A court of record In England, formerly held twice every year, within a month after Easter and Michaelmas, before the sheriff, in different parts of the county. It was indeed only the turn of the sheriff to keep a court leet in each respecor view of frank pledge, which see. 4 Steph. Com. 257. It was obsolete in Coke’s time, but was not abolished till 1887. It had a limited criminal jurisdiction.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A court of record in England, held twice every year, within a month after Easter and Michaelmas, before the sheriff, in different parts of the county. It is, indeed, only the turn or rotation of the sheriff to keep a court-leet in each respective hundred. It is the great court-leet of the county, as the county court is the court-baron ; for out of this, for the ease of the sheriff, was taken the court-leet or view of frank-pledge. 4 Bl. Comm. 273.
Defined under Sheriff in Black's Law Dictionary.