Councll; court; tribunal. Apparently so called from belng held within a building, at a time -when other courts were held in the open air. It was a local court The county oourt in the city of London bore this name. There were hustings at York, winchester, Lincoln, and in other pla-ces similar to the London hustings. Also the raised place from which candidates for seats in parliament address the constituency, on the occasion of their nomination, whartpn
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
