Lexicographical Neighbors of Halimotes
Literary usage of Halimotes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations by Sidney Webb (1908)
"We pass now to the halimotes, or Courts Baron, held on behalf of the Lord of Berkeley
... These were either " General halimotes," held normally once a year, ..."
2. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I. by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1895)
"... against a free- holding free man was a far more difficult matter. IV.
Appellate Jurisdiction. When a great lord had manv halimotes and one libera curia ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer by Great Britain Court of Exchequer (1829)
"... of and in the lordship of Leominster, and the halimotes or manors and mesne
manors thereunto belonging; and particularly of and in the manor of Luston, ..."
4. English Society in the Eleventh Century: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Sir Paul Vinogradoff (1908)
"The case stands exactly on a parallel with the halimotes of the bishop of Durham,
to which one great manorial court was superimposed,2 and with the placita ..."
5. The Growth of the Manor by Sir Paul Vinogradoff (1905)
"There can be no doubt that the halimotes, composed of free and servile suitors
and transacting all kinds of local affairs which we find everywhere in feudal ..."
6. The English Village Community Examined in Its Relations to the Manorial and by Frederic Seebohm (1905)
"... very numerous for years after the Black Death; and inquiry into cases of this
class formed a prominent part of the business transacted at the halimotes. ..."
7. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1889)
"... and this court seems to have exercised a 'jurisdiction in error ' over the
halimotes of the several manors.3 So Abbot Samson of St. Edmunds, ..."
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