Precinct
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The district for which a high or petty constable is appointed is, In England, called a precinct. Wilcox, Const, xii.
See Brooks v. Norris, 124 Mass. 172.
Precinct is used, in certain legislation in Wyoming, relatively to assessing taxes on railroad property, as a general word and not a technical one, and indicates any district marked out and defined. It further signifies a district inferior to a county and superior to a township.
Union P. R. Co. v. Cheyenne, 113 U. S. 524, 5 Sup. Ct. 601, 28 L. Ed. 1008.
In Pennsylvania and other states it is used to indicate a subdivision of a city for election purposes.