Market court
Market Court , also Meßgericht or Meßhandelsgericht designated in the Middle Ages a court which ruled prolapsed disputes during a fair or a market of all between the buying and traders. Market courts existed in places without a permanent commercial court , for example in Trier , where a pillory, which stood as a symbol for the market court, is still preserved on the main market there.
In England such dishes were known under the name Court of Piepowders (regionally also piepoudres, pepowder, etc.) since the Middle Ages ; the name is derived from the Anglo- Norman pié poudrous , literally "with dusty feet," which was used to describe traveling merchants. Some of these market courts met up to modern times, the last documented meeting in Hemel Hempstead in 1898 . In Bristol , until all market courts were formally abolished by the court reform in 1971 ( Courts Act 1971 ), the opening of the court was read out annually, even if the court had not met since the end of the annual mass in 1870.
literature
- Carl Guenther Ludovici: Opened academy of the merchants or also complete merchant lexicon. 2nd edition, III 1847f., Leipzig 1767.