A collective noun is one noun that refers to a group, or a collective. You may have heard of a herd of cattle, a gaggle of geese, or a pride of lions. "Herd," "gaggle," and "pride" would all be collective nouns here because they speak about a group. A collective noun acts singularly even though it implies a group.
Back to your question...actually, the answer is in the last line of the passage. A miner's court is the collective noun, because you state that it is made up of two hundred people. These two hundred cannot be differentiated from each other in the passage--they act together as one court; therefore, miner's court is the collective noun. If the miner's court had a jury, then "jury" would be a collective noun as well, because generally more than one person sits on a jury.
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