Centena
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. [from centum, a hundred.] A hundred. A district or division containing originally a hundred freemen, established among the Goths, Germans, Franks and Lombards, for military and civil purposes, and answering to the Saxon hundred.
Spelman. 1 Bl. Com. 115.
Esprit des Lois, liv.
30, c. 17.
The Saxon division is also sometimes called centena, but is more commonly rendered in law Latin, hundredum, or hundredus. Spelman, ubi sup. See Hundred, Hundredum, Centenarius, Centeni.