Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Formerly, in England, a court or assembly of the county held periodically by the sheriff along with the bishop of the diocese, and with the ealdorman in shires that had ealdormen.
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Examples
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The county court or shire-moot not only elected knights for Parliament; it often enough elected them for local purposes as well.
The Rise of the Democracy Joseph Clayton
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The shire-moot, too, with its delegates from the hundred-moots, was equally democratic.
The Rise of the Democracy Joseph Clayton
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In theory, at least, the shire-moot was a gathering of the freemen of the shire.
The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914
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Law in Normandy did not come as in England from the traditions of the shire-moot or the Witenagemot, where men met to consult together.
A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865
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Another most important personage was the sheriff, or shire-reeve, whose business it was to see that the king had all his rights, to preside over the shire-moot when it sat as a judicial court, and to take care that its sentences were put in execution.
A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865
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= -- Whilst the hundred-moot decayed, the folk-moot continued to flourish under a new name, as the shire-moot.
A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865
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Still the continued existence of the shire-moot kept up the custom of self-government more than anything else in England.
A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865
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Ecclesiastical questions had been decided and ecclesiastical offences punished not by any special ecclesiastical court, but by the shire-moot or Witenagemot, in which the laity and the clergy were both to be found.
A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865
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The shire-moot decided disputes pertaining to the ownership of land, tried suits for which a hearing could not be obtained in the court of the hundred, and exercised an incidental ecclesiastical jurisdiction. [
The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914
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