Corpus comitatus
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In old English law
The body,of a county.
Cro. Jac. 514; 5 How. (U. S.) 453; 5 Mason (U. S.) 290.
The county at large, as distinguished from any particular locality within it.