gemote
Noun
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Noun
gemote (plural gemotes)
- Alternative form of gemot
- 1879, A handbook for travellers in Devonshire (ninth edition; published by John Murray), page 26:
- He expelled the Britons, and fixed the Tamar as their limit Then returning to Exeter, he held therein a gemote, at which certain laws still in existence were promulgated, […]
- 1918, Michigan Law Review, volume 16, page 325:
- Dean Pound somewhere quoting from Freeman, the English historian, the most noted of the Anglo-Saxon myth-makers, cites the examiner in law who insisted that William the Conqueror introduced the feudal system at the gemote at Salisbury in 1086, […]
- 1879, A handbook for travellers in Devonshire (ninth edition; published by John Murray), page 26:
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