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STANNARY COURTS

Volume 20 · 63 words · 1860 Edition

(Lat. Stannum, tin), are legal institutions in Devonshire and Cornwall, for the administration of justice among the tanners. They are held before the lord-warden and his substitutes, by a privilege granted to the workers in the tin-mines, to sue and be sued only in their own courts, that they may not be drawn from their business by attending their lawsuits in other courts.