Leet. The court leet, in England, was a court of a manor, township, &c. for election of certain officers and trial of minor offences. The importance of these courts is now very small, but there are manors, &c. where they are regularly held.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 559
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