Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Court of Sweinmote
Hist. A medieval forest court with jurisdiction over a variety of matters, esp. the right to graze animals during the summer when deer were fawning. 0 The forest freeholders (the sweins) made up the jury of the Court. By the 14th century, the Court's jurisdiction had expanded, and it acquired a form similar to the eyre courts. During this period, the Court came to be referred to as the Court of Swanimote rather than the Court of Sweinmote.
Sweinmote
Hist. A forest court held three times a year, before verderors as judges and freeholders of the forest as jurors, to try forest offenses. - Also spelled swainmote; swanimote; swainemote; swaingemote. "The court of sweinmote is to be holden before the verderors, as judges, by the steward of the sweinmote thrice in every year . . . . The principal jurisdiction of this court is, first, to enquire into the oppressions and grievances committed by the officers of the forest .and, secondly, to receive and try presentments certified from the court of attachments against offences in vert and venison." 3 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 72 (1768).