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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

The inhabitants of a hundred, who, by several statutes, are held to be liable, in the cases therein specified, to make good the loss sustained by persons within the hundred by robbery or other violence, therein also specified. The principal of these statutes are 13 Edw. I. st.

2, c. 1, i 4; 28 Edw. IIL c. 11; 27 Eliz. c. 13; 29 Car. II. c. 7; 8 Geo. II. c. 16; 22 Geo. II. c. 24.

Persons serving on juries, or fit to be impanelled thereon, dwelling within the hundred where the land in question lies.

35 Hen. VIII. c. 6.

And some such were necessarily on every panel till 4 & 5 Anne, c.

16. 4 Steph. Comm. 370.

Him that had the jurisdiction of the hundred; the bailiff of the hundred. Home, Mirr. Just. lib.

1; Jacob.