Districtus
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
I. I.
In old English law
A distress; a distraint; a district; the place within which the power of distraining might be exercised; a person distrained on. In feudal law. The power of coercion or distress; the jurisdiction of a magistrate or feudal lord; a place within which such^ower or jurisdiction might be exercised.