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