A case before the court of Pie-Poudre, at the "Hand and Shears" during the Bartholomew Fair from a drawing dated 1811
A court of piepowders was a special tribunal in England organised by a borough on the occasion of a fair or market. Such a court had unlimited jurisdiction over personal actions or events taking place at the market, including disputes between merchants, theft, and acts of violence. Many hundreds of such courts operated in the Middle Ages, and a small number continued to exist even into modern times. Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England in 1768 described this court as "the lowest, and at the same time the most expeditious, court of justice known to the law of England".[1]
^"Blackstone's Commentaries - Book the Third - Chapter the Fourth : Of the Public Courts of Common Law and Equity". Archived from the original on 20 August 2004. Retrieved 16 August 2004.
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