In Saxon law. A general assembly of the people in a town or shire.It appears to have had judicial functions of a limited nature, and also to havedischarged political offices, such as deliberating upon the affairs of the commonwealthor complaining of misgovernment, and probably possessed considerable powers of localself- government. The name was also given to any sort of a popular assembly. SeeSpelman ; Manwood; Cunningham.
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