A historical legal record or roll documenting court proceedings and judicial decisions in medieval England.
From Old French 'court' (court) + 'noll' (head, nodule), referring to the rolled parchment documents kept by court clerks that contained recorded judgments and cases.
Medieval courts literally kept their legal records on rolled parchment scrolls—the word 'roll' comes from the physical act of rolling up documents, making 'courtnoll' a linguistic fossil of pre-digital record-keeping.
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