“Suit covenant” and “suit custom’ seem to have signified a right to one’s attendance, or one’s obligation to attend, at the lord’s court, founded upon a known covenant, or an immemorial usage or practice of ancestors. “Suit regal” was attendance at the sheriff's tourn or leet, (his court.) “Suit of the king’s peace” was pursuing an offender, — one charged with breach of the peace, Abbott.