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Decenna

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. [from decem, ten.] In old English law. A tithing or decennary; the precinct of a frankpledge; consisting of ten freeholders with their families.

Spelman.

Bract. fol.

124 b. 2 Inst. 13. 1 Bl. Com. 114.

See Decennary, Tithing, Frankpledge, Friborg.