courts-leet

He could erect manors, with courts-baron and courts-leet, and confer titles and dignities, so that they differed from those of England.

Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins John Fiske 1871

We had formerly in our (y) churches, plays, feafts, courts-leet and mufters, and at prefent our kings are anointed there, all remains of ancient ufages.

Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicus 1786

_gentlemen_ too, who seem to think that counties and parishes, and churches and parsons, and tithes and glebes, and manors and courts-leet, and paupers and poor-houses, all grew up in England, or dropped down upon it, immediately after Noah's flood!

Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. William Cobbett 1799