Vill
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
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-
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
In England this word was used to signify the parts into which a hundred or wapentake was divided. Fortescue, de Laud. c. 24. See Co. Litt. 115 &. It also signified a town or city. Barrington, Stat. 133. The proper English word for the village community, and the only one for which there is ancient authority, is “township,” afterwards latinized as “vill.” Pollock, English Manor, in Oxford Lectures 124. See Village; Township.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In old English law, this word was used to signify the parts into which a hundred or wapentake was divided. It also signifies a town or city.
— Demi-vill. A town consisting of five freemen, or frank-piedges. Spelman.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
A manor; tithing; town.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Seems to bear the same signification in law as a town or tithing; and each of them is said to have had originally a church, and celebration of divine service, sacraments, and bm-ials (though this seems to be rather an ecclesiastical than a civil distinction), and hence it is' that the word vill has by some writers been described as a parish or a manor. It appears to have some different significations, but its more ordinary meaning was that of a town. Brown.