‖ mallum, mallus Hist.
(ˈmæləm, ˈmæləs)
[med.L. mallum, -us, ad. OFrankish *mall-, contracted form of OTeut. *maþlo- (Goth. maþl meeting-place, OE. mæðel meeting, discussion, OHG., OS. mahal assembly, judgement, speech). Cf. mail n.2, mall2.]
The hundred-court among the Franks. (By modern historians sometimes used as the name of a common Germanic institution, and so attributed to the Anglo-Saxons.)
| 1844 Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. iii. (1862) 54 There was a popular infusion occasionally in the King's mallum, or council. 1851 Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 400 The mallum, the Shire-moot, could not be convened. 1874 Stubbs Const. Hist. I. iii. §25. 55 From the decisions of the mallus there is no appeal, except to the king himself. |