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A manor-court for petty offences; the day on which such a court was held. (Anglo-Saxon, lethe, a lawcourt superior to the wapentake.)
“Who has a breast so pure,
But some uncleanly apprehensions
Keep leets and law-days and in session sit
With meditations lawful?”
Shakespeare: Othello, iii. 3.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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