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custumal

custumal noun: a survey of a medieval English manor, listing each tenant and the customs under which the tenancy was held.

Noun

custumal (plural custumals)

  1. (historical) A survey of a medieval English manor, listing each tenant and the customs under which the tenancy was held.
    • However, it may have been too unwieldy for a large and growing city, and its business therefore narrowed as the other courts developed. According to an early thirteenth-century custumal, there were three chief folkmoots a year: […]2003, John Hamilton Baker, The Oxford History of the Laws of England: c. 900-1216, page 819

Forms of custumal

pluralcustumals

Origin of custumal

Borrowed from Late Latin custumale (adjective, neuter form of custumalis), used as an adjectival noun. Attested to 1576.

Questions about custumal

What does custumal mean?
Custumal means a survey of a medieval English manor, listing each tenant and the customs under which the tenancy was held.
What part of speech is custumal?
Custumal is a noun.
What is the plural of custumal?
The plural of custumal is custumals.

Words near custumal in the dictionary

  1. custrel
  2. custrels
  3. custron
  4. custrons
  5. Custs
  6. custumal
  7. custumals
  8. custumaries
  9. custumary
  10. CUSUM
  11. Cusumano

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