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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… mayor and late mayor are justices of the peace. A court leet is held; and the county magistrates hold petty-sessions …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of the Interregnum. 28 In the late 16th century the leet enforced the assizes of bread and of ale, appointing … 30 From the late 16th century there was duplication of leet jurisdiction in the hundred, for a separate view was … dealt with some matters which strictly belonged to the leet of the hundred. 31 The three parishes of Bledisloe …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock itself or in the demesne towns. Usually a court leet and view was held in each town in the autumn or spring, … called private courts, in contrast to the general courts leet held annually in the autumn. 21 The hundredal courts …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… A bailiff and other officers are appointed at the court leet of the lord of the manor. The borough received the …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… be holden of Sir John Heveningham, of his manor of South Leet, in soccage. 2 The said William Sydnor, by deed indented … vicarages of Blundeston and Fritton aforesaid; and courts-leet and view of frank-pledge, &c., to hold to him and his …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Peveril, held at Lenton, near Nottingham: a court leet belonging to the lord of the manor is held every third … under the regulation of officers appointed at the court leet of the lord of the manor; but on the 11th Oct. 1838, a …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… for debt; and, within one month after Michaelmas, a court leet, as lords of the manor, with view of frankpledge. The …
A New History of London
… as hundreds; wherefore this court resembles that of the Leet in the county: for, as the latter derives its authority …
A New History of London
… is in the nature of a sheriff; for he keeps the court-leet with the other magistrates, and is chairman at the … subordinate to him. He summons juries, and in the court-leet sits next to the deputy steward. To him all fines, … the other for the liberties; who take place in the court-leet next to the high bailiff. Beside these there is a high …