Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One subject to the jurisdiction of a court-leet.
- noun In the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669), a serf.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One subject to the jurisdiction of a court-leet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One subject to the jurisdiction of a court-
leet .
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Examples
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Whoever voluntarily became a leetman was a leetman; and the rank once acquired was, like every other rank of the Constitutions, hereditary. 1
The Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina (1663-1729) 1894
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On the marriage of a leetman or a leetwoman the lord was bound to give the newly married pair ten acres of land, for which not more than one-eighth of the yearly produce could be taken as rent.
The Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina (1663-1729) 1894
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A leetman was under the legal jurisdiction of the lord's court, without appeal to a higher tribunal.
The Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina (1663-1729) 1894
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They had no place in the militia, nor could they claim the meanest rights of the humblest "leetman."
History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George W. Williams 1870
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