Hundred
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
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