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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 … [Read more...] about HUNDRED

Spanish law. An acre of land or as much as can be ploughed in a day by two oxen. Sp. Dict.; 2 White's Coll. 49. … [Read more...] about HUEBRA

The name of a court among the Saxons. It was holden every month, for the benefit of the inhabitants of the hundred. … [Read more...] about HUNDRED GEMOTE

In Spanish law. A measure of land equal to as much as a yoke of oxen can plow in one day. 2 White, Recop. (38,) 49; Strother v. Lucas, 12 Pet 448, 9 L. Ed. 1137. … [Read more...] about HUEBRAS

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." … [Read more...] about HUNDREDARIUS