Vill
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Seems to bear the same signification in law as a town or tithing; and each of them is said to have had originally a church, and celebration of divine service, sacraments, and bm-ials (though this seems to be rather an ecclesiastical than a civil distinction), and hence it is' that the word vill has by some writers been described as a parish or a manor. It appears to have some different significations, but its more ordinary meaning was that of a town.
Brown.