Legal Term Dictionary

Under the Saxon organization of England, each county or shire comprised an indefinite number of hundreds, each hundred containing ten titMngs, 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 More...

Under the Saxon organization of England, each county or shire comprised an indefinite number of hundreds, each hundred containing ten titMngs, 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 peoples, as we find the same thing established in the Frankish kingdom under Olothaire, 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 seeta. The performance of suit and service at the hundred court.-Hundred setena. In Saxon law. The dwellers or inhabitants of a hundred. Cowell; Blount. Spelman suggests the reading of sceatena from Sax. "scent" a tax. Less...

A denomination of weight containing, according to the English system, 112 pounds; but in this country, generally, it consists of 100 pounds avoirdupois.

A denomination of weight containing, according to the English system, 112 pounds; but in this country, generally, it consists of 100 pounds avoirdupois. Less...

In old English law. A hundredary or hundredor. A name given to the chief officer of a hundred, as well as to the freeholders who composed it Spel. voc. "Hundredus."

In old English law. A hundredary or hundredor. A name given to the chief officer of a hundred, as well as to the freeholders who composed it Spel. voc. "Hundredus." Less...

The chief or presiding officer of a hundred.

The chief or presiding officer of a hundred. Less...

The presiding officer in the hundred court Anc. Inst Eng.

The presiding officer in the hundred court Anc. Inst Eng. Less...

In English law. The Inhabitants or freeholders of a hundred, anciently the suitors or judges of the hundred court Persons Impaneled or fit to be impaneled upon juries, dwelling within the hundred where the cause of action arose. Cromp. Jur. 217. It was formerly necessary to have some of these More...

In English law. The Inhabitants or freeholders of a hundred, anciently the suitors or judges of the hundred court Persons Impaneled or fit to be impaneled upon juries, dwelling within the hundred where the cause of action arose. Cromp. Jur. 217. It was formerly necessary to have some of these upon every panel of jurors. 3 BL Comm. "859, 360; 4 Steph. Comm. 870. The term "hundredor" was also used to signify the officer who had the jurisdiction of a hundred, and held the hundred court and sometimes the bailiff of a hundred. Termes de la Ley; CowelL Less...

A jury so irreconcilably divided in opinion that they cannot agree upon any verdict.

A jury so irreconcilably divided in opinion that they cannot agree upon any verdict. Less...

A domestic; one of a family.

A domestic; one of a family. Less...

In English criminal law. A kind of sledge, on which convicted felons were drawn to the place of execution.

In English criminal law. A kind of sledge, on which convicted felons were drawn to the place of execution. Less...

A storm of great violence or intensity, of which the particular characteristic is the high velocity of the wind. There is naturally no exact measure to distinguish between an ordinary storm and a hurricane, but the wind should reach a velocity of at least 50 or 60 miles an hour More...

A storm of great violence or intensity, of which the particular characteristic is the high velocity of the wind. There is naturally no exact measure to distinguish between an ordinary storm and a hurricane, but the wind should reach a velocity of at least 50 or 60 miles an hour to be called by the latter name, or, as expressed in some of the cases, it should be sufficient to "throw down buildings." A hurricane is properly a circular storm in the nature of a cyclone. See Pelican Ins. Co. v. Troy Co-op. Ass'n, 77 Tex. 225, 13 S. W. 980; Queen Ins. Co. v. Hudnut Co., 8 Ind. App. 22, 35 N. EL 397; Tyson v. Union Mut Fire A Storm Co., 2 Montg. Co. Law Rep'r (Pa.) 17. Less...