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Definition of Doomsmen
1. doomsman [n] - See also: doomsman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doomsmen
Literary usage of Doomsmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society edited by Charles William Sutton (1899)
"The sheriff (ie, shire reeve) was the constituting and presiding officer, the
thanes were the suitors or doomsmen, together with all lords of lands, ..."
2. Historical Essays in Connexion with the Land, the Church, &c. by Eben William Robertson (1872)
"... man chose or elected twelve doomsmen, and . . . this court was called the ...
the twelve doomsmen answering to the Scabini or Schoppen, chosen from the ..."
3. Management Desk Alliance/Leicest by HarperCollins Publishers Limited, Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society (1899)
"The summons of the reeve to pleas, or to go on a service, corresponds in
post-Conquest times with the suit of the doomsmen or judges to the hundred courts ..."
4. Social England: A Record of the Progress of the People in Religion, Laws by Henry Duff Traill (1894)
"But all or many of the free landowners of the district are bound to attend it;
they owe " suit" to it, they are its suitors, they are its doomsmen ; it is ..."
5. A Sketch of English Legal History by Frederic William Maitland, Francis Charles Montague, James Fairbanks Colby (1915)
"These doomsmen are not "judges of fact." There is no room for any judges of fact.
... The doomsmen have decreed how many oath-helpers, and of what quality, ..."
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