Hundred

In English law. A division of a county, which some make to have originally consisted of one hundred hides of land; others of ten tithings, or one hundred free families. It differed in size in different parts of England. 1 Steph. Comm. 122. In many cases, when an offense is committed within a hundred, the inhabitants are liable to make good the damage if they do not produce the offender. See 12 East, 244. This system was probably introduced by Alfred (though mentioned in the Poenitentiae of Egbert, where it seems to be the addition of a later age), being borrowed from the continent, where it was known to the Franks, under the name centena, in the sixth century. See Charlemagne, Cap. lib. 3, c. 10. It had a court attached to it, called the "hundred court," or "hundred lagh," like a court baron, except in its larger territorial jurisdiction. It was governed by the hundredary (hundredarius). 9 Coke, 25. The jurisdiction of this court has devolved upon the county courts. Jacob; Du Cange. Hundred penny was a tax collected from the hundred by its lord or by the sheriff. Hundred setena signified the dwellers in the hundred. Charta Edg. Reg. Mon. Angl. torn. 1, p. 16.

In English Law. A division of a county, which some make to have originally consisted of one hundred hides of land, others of ten tithings, or one hundred free families. See Regan v. R. Co., 60 Conn. ’124, 22 Atl. 503, 25 Am. St. Rep. 30G. It differed in size in different parts of England; h Steph. Com. 122. In many cases, when an offence is committed within a hundred, the inhabitants are liable to make good the damage if they do not produce the offender. See 12 East 244. This system was probably introduced by Alfred (though mentioned in the Poenitentise of Egbert, where it seems to be the addition of a later age), being borrowed from the continent, where it was known to the Franks, under the name ceniena, in the sixth century. See Charlemagne Capit 1. 3, c. 10; 1 Poll. & Maitl. 543. “The hundred, and the principle that the hundred community is a judicial body, outlived the storms of the folk-wanderings, the political creations of Clovis, the reforms of Charlemagne, the dissolution of the Frankish Empire, the dissolution of the county system.” Sohm, Die Frhnkische Reichs- und Gerichtsverfassung I. 641. It had a court attached to it, called the hundred court, or hundred lagh, like a court baron, except in its larger territorial jurisdiction. It was governed by the hundredary (hundredariua); 9 Co. 25. Hundred-penny was a tax collected from the hundred by its lord or by the sheriff. Hundred-fetena signified the dwellers in the hundred; Charta Edg. Beg. Mon. Angl. to. 1, p. 10. In Dela- England, townships in Pennsylvania, parishes in Louisiana, and the like.

Under the Saxon organization of England, each county or shire comprised an indefinite number of hundreds, each hundred containing ten tithings or groups of ten families of freeholders or frankpledges. The hundred was governed by a high constable, and had its own court; but its most remarkable feature was the corporate responsibility of the whole for the crimes or defaults of the individual members. The introduction of this plan of organization into England is commonly ascribed to Alfred, but the idea, as well of the collective liability as of the division, was probably known to the ancient German pcoples, as we find the same thing established in the Frankish kingdom under Clothaire, and in Denmark. See 1 Bl. Comm. 115; 4 Bl. Comm. 411.

— Hundred court. In English law. A larger court-baron, being held for all the inhabitants of a particular hundred, instead of a manor. The free suitors are the judges, and the steward the registrar, as in the case of a court-baron. It is not a court of record, and resembles a court-baron in all respects except that in point of territory it is of greater jurisdiction. These courts have long since fallen into desuetude. 3 Bl. Comm. 34, 35 ; 3 Steph. Comm. 394, 395.

— Hundred gemote. Among the Saxons, a meeting or court of the freeholders of a hundred, which assembled, originally, twelve times a year, and possessed civil and criminal jurisdiction and ecclesiastical powers. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 7.

— Hundred lagh. The law of the hundred, or hundred court; liability to attend the hundred court Spelman.

— Hundred penny. In old English law. A tax collected from the hundred, by the sheriff or lord of the hundred.

— Hundred secta. The performance of suit and service at the hundred court.

— Hundred setena. In Saxon law. The dwellersor inhabitants of a hundred. Cowell; Blount. Spelman suggests the reading of sceatena from Sax. "sceat," a tax.

In English law. A subdivision cause originally composed of ten tithings, hundred freemen or frank pledges, in offenses were committed within the offender or to make good the damage. court baron, held for all the inhabitants stead of a manor.

In old English law. Hundred penny: a tax dred, by the sheriff or lord of the hundred.

In Saxon law. Hundred gemote: a meeting Hundred lagh: the law of the hundred, among children, v. Collatio when a court is met habitation; a building divided walls, a roof, a door, and mean the whole building,; nor is it necessarily extended to include land, as house; a legislative body; Ancient house; Burglary. together as a family. family. Household furnicontribute to the use or conof the house, as plate, goods: articles which are acquired for a house, and are consumed in their enjoywhich may be used for the bedding, and the like. his family; the head of a a house, as distinguished acquittance for a trespass or servant with which felons were heard it were bound to join proclamation, issued on all persons to assist in reof a county, so named beor as is supposed, of one which all were liable, where district either to pi-oduce the Hundred court: a larger of a particular hundred, incollected from the hunor court of a hundred. or hundred court; liability

A civil division of a county. Consisted ot ten tithings. So called, because it was equal to a hundred hides of land; or because it furnished one hundred men In time of war.' Hundredor. Aninhabitant of a hundred; also, a qualified juryman within n hundred; and, also, the executive officer of a hundred.'' HUNGr. Is sometimes applied to a jury which fails to agree upon a verdict.

A portion of a county usually containing ten tithings and a hundred frank-pledges, in which all were liable, in case of offence within the district, to produce the offender or make Hundred court: v. Court, ZO. Hundred gemote: v. Coari, 31. Hurst A little wood.

Eng. law. A district of country originally comprehending one hundred families. In many cases when an offence is committed within the hundred, the inhabitants are civilly responsible to the party injured.