A moot hill or mons placiti (statute hill) is a hill or mound historically used as an assembly or meeting place, as a moot hall is a meeting or assembly...
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Look up moot or moot point in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Moot may refer to: Mootness, in American law: a point where further proceedings have lost...
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Scone Abbey (redirect from Moot Hill)
have been somewhat larger than had been imagined and revealed that the Moot Hill had at some point been surrounded by a ditch and palisade; marking it...
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of the ceremonies held at Scone, and the judgments made from a top the Moot Hill. It is old sayings like this which frustrated historians, as the sayings...
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a moot hill or moot mound, where the elders of the hundred would meet to take decisions. Some of these acquired permanent buildings, known as moot halls...
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Scottish coronations were a more pagan ceremony, including the use of the Moot Hill (the coronation mound). It is likely that Scottish inaugurations and coronations...
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laws. Rivers or lochans were used if conveniently situated near to a moot hill, where the baronial court dempster would announce the death penalty. The...
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The terms moot, mootness and moot point are used in both English and American law, although with different meanings. In the legal system of the United...
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Dule tree (section The hill of lamentation)
these trees grew often became known as "gallows hills". It is not clear whether the moot hills (justice hills) were also the site of the gallows. Some of...
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