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Definition of Leets
1. leet [n] - See also: leet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leets
Literary usage of Leets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1892)
"The membrane containing the amercement of defaulters at the leets is 19 amercements.
14 14 13 [torn] mutilated, so that three leets are missing. ..."
2. Leet Jurisdiction in the City of Norwich During the XIIIth and XIVth by Norwich (England). Court Leet, William Hudson (1892)
"But in below, the amounts seem too each of the four Great leets here three small
for that. Still I see no other items of accounts ..."
3. Norfolk Archaeology, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to the Antiquities of (1901)
"Further, in the same roll, under the first of the two sub-leets Over the Water,
a certain Simon de Melton is reported for " grievous contempt done to the ..."
4. The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh by Great Britain (1763)
"... mayors and bailiffs elected in their leets, law- days, rapes and court-barons,
to be hereafter Irakien before them, or any of them, ..."
5. The true history of Church of Scotland, from the beginning of the by David Calderwood (1843)
"leets FOR A SUPERINTENDENT TO GALLOWAY, &C. For planting of kirks in the ...
and the rest of the west dails, the Assemblie nominated in leets for the ..."
6. The History of the Kirk of Scotland by David Calderwood (1843)
"leets FOR A SUPERINTENDENT TO GALLOWAY, &C. For planting of kirks in the ...
and the rest of the west dails, the Assemblie nominated in leets for the ..."
7. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"exercised it twice a year was acquiring the name of a leet leets. (leta); it was
a police court for the presentment of offences and for the punishment of ..."
8. A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages by John Joseph Powell, Thomas Coventry (1826)
"Rents, also, and franchises, as views of frankpledge, per* Rents, quisites of
courts, leets, fairs, markets, goods of felons, waifs, ' ' ' The mere dealing ..."
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