TOURN • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Tourn

... Ils arrivrent bientt au sommet de la montagne, et ils regardrent leur maison, qui paraissait bien petite. Alors ils se tournrent et regardrent la mer. Tout coup la petite fille dit: "Papa, regarde l-bas. Voil quelque chose qui ressemble de la fume." Le pre regarda, ...

— Contes et lgendes - 1re Partie • H. A. Guerber

... thanes, in their private jurisdictions, had delegated their power of judging to their reeves, or stewards; and the earl, or alderman, who was in the shire what the thane was in his manor, for the same reasons officiated by his deputy, the shire-reeve. This is the origin of the Sheriff's Tourn, which decided in all affairs, civil and criminal, of whatever importance, and from which there lay no appeal but to the Witenagemote. Now there scarce remains the shadow of a body formerly so great: the judge being reduced almost wholly to a ministerial officer; and to the court ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VII. (of 12) • Edmund Burke