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Tithing, a Saxon subdivision of the hundred, replacing the name of township as the unit of local administration (see Stubbs's Constitutional History, vol. i. p. 85) in some parts of England, the name still existing in Somersetshire and Wiltshire; the number or company of ten men with their families, knit together in a society, all of them being bound to the king for their peaceable and good behaviour, the chief of whom was called the tithing-man. See TOWNSHIP.