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folc-gemót

  • noun [ neuter ]
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folc-gemót, -mót, folces gemót, es; n.
A folk-meeting; pŏpŭli consessus. The folc-gemót was a general assembly of the people of a town, city or shire, and was held annually on the first of May, but it could be convened on extraordinary occasions by ringing the moot-bell, — 'Cum ălĭquid vēro inŏpīnātum, vel dŭbium, vel mălum contra, regnum, vel contra cŏrōnam dŏmĭni rēgis, forte in ballivis suis sŭbĭto emersĕrit, dēbent, stătim pulsātis campānis quod Anglĭce vŏcant mótbel convŏcāre omnes et ūnĭversos, quod Anglĭce dīcunt folcmóte, i. e. vŏcātio et congrĕgātio pŏpŭlōrum, et gentium omnium, quia ĭbi omnes convĕnīre dēbent. . . Stătūtum est quod dēbent pŏpŭli omnes, et gentes ūnĭversæ singŭlis annis, sĕmel in anno scīlĭcet convĕnīre, scīlĭcet in căpĭte kal. Maii,'
  • Th. Anglo-Saxon Laws, vol. i. 613, note a
. The folc-gemót was forbidden to be held on Sundays
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v. folc-mót, folc-land. v. Stubbs' Const. Hist. folk-moot.
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v.  folc-mót.
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