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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

A hundred

A district or division containing originally a hundred freemen, established among the Goths, Germans, Franks, and Lombards, for military and civll purposes, and answering to the Saxon "hundred."

Spelman ; 1 Bl. Comm. 115.

Also, in old records and pleadings, a hundred weight.