County
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[L. Fr. counie; L. Lat. comitatus.] A civil division of a state or kingdom, for political and judicial purposes, formerly governed in England by the earl or count, from whom it derived its name. Termes de la ley.
1 Bl. Com. 113, 116. Crabb's Hist. Eng. Law, 16. Co, Litt. 109 b.
It is the same with shire, (scyre,) which was the corresponding term in Saxon. 1 Bl. Com, 116. The county court was sometimes anciently termed the county, Termes de la ley. Mirr. c.
1, sect. 15. 9 Co. pref.
See U. S. Digest and Supplement, County. U, S, Ann. Dig. h. t.