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While reading Baker's Introduction to English Legal History I ran across the term "The Moot" (p.4- Yeah, i takes me a while to read and understand these new history vocabulary).
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The reference helps to disambiguate that the question is about folk moots, rather than "moot courts." A sufficient answer can be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, which is freely available to all Columbia community members online.
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>		For the answer team, let's take a more specific object of inquiry: the "hundred courts," which have their origin in the "hundred moot." What was the hundred in Anglo-Saxon England? How was the hundred as a unit affected by Norman legislation? What were the functions of the hundred court before Edward I?
 

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