Definitions | compter |
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- (obsolete) a counter
- (historical) a prison attached to a city court; a counter
- 2003: Each sheriff had his own , which were both prisons and offices, administered by the respective secondaries. " John Hamilton Baker, The Oxford History of the Laws of England (Oxford 2003, p. 284)
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