Hundred Court

An Inferior court, whose jurisdiction extended to the whole territory embraced in a hundred. They were courts not of record; the freeholders were sembled courts baron in all respects except in their territorial jurisdiction. 3 Bl. Comm. 34, 35.

An Inferior court, long obsolete, and practically abolished by the C!ounty Courts Act of 1867, sec. 28, whose Jurisdiction extended to the whole territory embraced in a hundred. They were courts not of record; the freeholders were the Judges; they were held before the stewart of the manor as register; and they resembled courts baron in all respects except in their territorial Jurisdiction; 3 Bla. Com. 34, 35. There is no doubt that this’ was the primary court. Pollock, 1 Sel. Essays in Anglo- Amer. Leg. Hist. 91; it was the first well known Judicial institution in the history of England. James C. Carter, The Law, etc. See 14 L. Q. R. 292.

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.

Defined under Hundred in Black's Law Dictionary.

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