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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An ancient court of record in England, once incident to every fair and market, of which the steward of the owner or holder of the toll was the judge. It was instituted to administer justice for all commercial injuries done in that fair or market, but not in any preceding one.
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“There were traders among them, but commerce was only a small part of what they achieved and it was not what they shared: piepowder people were united by the purposeful travelling life.”
“Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 I argue that piepowder people were the most dynamic social class in later medieval England.”
“The name “piepowder” is said to be a corruption of two French words meaning “dusty foot.””
“There were many types of merchant courts, including the colorful courts of piepowder, a court of the fairs where merchants gathered.”
“It was given the usual powers of a borough -- a mayor's court, markets, fairs, and a court of piepowder.”
“Jurors, magistrates, witnesses, attorneys of the circuit, and all the throng of a country side interested in this piepowder justice, were rapidly converging to the centre of business.”
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
“On paper, the proprietors established a whole battery of courts after English models: hundred courts and manorial courts, courts of hustings and piepowder in St. Mary’s and Annapolis, county courts, courts of oyer and terminer, a chancery court, a court of vice-admiralty, and a prerogative court, among others.”
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