FOLCMOTE

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  FOLCMOTE. The name of a court among the Saxons. It was literally an assembly 
  of the people or inhabitants of the tithing or town, its jurisdiction 
  extended over disputes between neighbors, as to matters of trespass in 
  meadows, corn, and the like.