Tourn
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For the botanist with taxonomic author abbreviation Tourn., see Joseph Pitton de Tournefort.
The tourn (tour, turn) was the bi-annual inspection of the hundreds of his shire made by the sheriff in medieval England. During it he would preside over the especially full meetings of the hundred court (more normally three-weekly) which met during the tourn at Easter and Michaelmas.