forming a way of promoting or celebrating their local area. Despite this, their legal jurisdiction over crime was only abolished in 1977, by section 23 of the Administration of Justice Act 1977. However, one exception was allowed: the court leet for the manor of Laxton, Nottinghamshire, which had continued to operate judicially; Laxton retains the open-field system of farming, which had been replaced everywhere else by the 18th century (as a result of the process of enclosure), and required the court in order to administer the field system. Although the Administration of Justice Act had abolished the legal jurisdiction of the other courts leet, it emphasised that "any such court may continue to sit and transact such other business, if any, as was customary for it". Schedule 4 to the Act specified the "business" which was to be considered customary, which included the taking of presentments relating to matters of local concern and – in some cases – the management of common land. Courts leet existing today The following courts leet were exempted from abolition by the Administration of Justice Act 1977, and were known to be still functioning in 2010: Alcester (Warwickshire) Court Leet, Court Baron and View of Frankpledge Ashburton Courts Leet and Baron Bideford Manor Court (held by the town council) Court Leet and Court Baron of the Ancient Manor of Bowes in County of Durham Ancient Court Leet and Court Baron of the Manor of Bromsgrove Courts Leet and Baron of Barony of Cemaes in County of Dyfed (Pembrokeshire) Manorial Court for Hundred and Borough of Cricklade Danby (North Yorkshire) Court Leet and Court Baron Manor of Fyling Court Leet in North Yorkshire Court Baron for the Manor of Heaton in City of Bradford Court Leet and Court Baron of the Manor of Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire Town and Manor of Hungerford and the Manor and Liberty of Sanden Fee Hocktide Court and Court Leet Manor of Laxton Court Leet Court Leet and Baron of the Manor of Mynachlogddu, Dyfed The Norwich Court of Mayoralty (held by the town council to admit freemen) Court Leet of the Island and Royal Manor of Portland Southampton Court Leet Southwark Courts Leet and Views of Frankpledge for the three Manors of the City of London (the Guildable, King's, and Great Liberty). Manor of Spaunton Court Leet and Court Baron with View of Frankpledge Courts Leet and Baron of Stockbridge, Hampshire Court