Brewer's: Leet

(A). A manor-court for petty offences; the day on which such a court was held. (Anglo-Saxon, lethe, a law-court 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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