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BARGHMOTE

Volume 3 · 57 words · 1797 Edition

or **BARMOTE**, a court which takes cognizance of causes and disputes between miners. — By the custom of the mines, no person is to sue any miner for ore-debt, or for ore, or for any ground in variance, but only in the court of barmote, on penalty of forfeiting the debt, and paying the charges at law.