Vill
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In England, this word was used to signify the parts into which a hundred or wapentake was divided. Fortesc. c.
24. See Co. Litt. 115b.
It also signifies a town or city.
Barr. Obs. St. 133.
VILLA EST EX PLURIBUS MANSIONIbus vicinata, et collata ex plurlbus vicinis, et sub appellatlone villarum continentur burgi et civitates. VIU Is a neighborhood of many mansions, a collection of many neighbors, and under the term of "vills," bor-