Manorial-court Definition

Manorial-court Sentence Examples

• The town, though frequently the centre for medieval assizes and inquisitions, never became a municipal or parliamentary borough, but was governed by two constables, elected in the manorial court.

• Here was held the manorial court of Furness Abbey.

• These writs entitled them to appear as plaintiffs against the lord in his own manorial court and, eventually, to have the question at issue examined by way of appeal, on a writ of error, or by reservation on some legal points in the upper courts of the king.

• At the end of the same century the court for the view of frankpledge was generally known as the court leet, and was usually a manorial court in private hands.