court-baron

See also: court baron

English

Noun

court-baron (plural court-barons or courts-baron)

1. (law, historical) An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “court-baron”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)