Centumviri

Lat. A hundred men. The name of a Roman court consisting of a hundred judges, to whom belonged the decision of the most important questions of law, such as those relating to inheritances, wills, guardianships, sales, the enjoyment of party walls, windows, the drip of water, and numerous other important subjects, which were called causae centumvirales. Cic, de Orat. i.

38, 39.

Plin, Epist, ii.

14. 3 Bl. Com. 315.

Properly there were 106 judges, three being chosen from each of the thirty-five tribes; but they were always named by a round number, centumviri, Festus,