Precinct

The limits of an officer's jurisdiction, or of an election district. As used in the return to a process, the territory within which the officer may legally discharge the duties of his office.* A general word, indicating any district marked out and defined. In a given connection, may signify a district inferior to a county and superior to a township." In Wisconsin, formerly referred to certain districts having similar functions toithose of towns, and which passed away upon the formation of the first legislative ■ Colton V. Colton, 127 U. S. 312-21 (1888), cases, Matthews, J. See generally 20 Cent, Law J. 63-66 (1885), cases; 27 Am. Law Reg. 459-63 (1888), cases; 1 Perry, Trusts, §§ 112-23, cases. '1.

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Pr Sc'-e-dent. > On the value of, see 10 Va. Law J. 582 (1886). • Adams v. Vose, 1 Gray, 58 (1854), Dewey, J. » Brooks V. Norris, 124 Mass. 173 (1878), Colt, J. 524 districts after the admission of the State into the Union. The term is no longer used, ezcept, perhaps, occasionally as interchangeable with election district. *