Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—L

Leet

(A). A manor-court for petty offences; the day on which such a court was held. (Anglo-Saxon, lethe, a law-court superior to the wapentake.)

Who has a breast so pure,
But some uncleanly apprehensions
Keep leets and law-days and in session sit
With meditations lawful?

Shakespeare: Othello, iii. 3.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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