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Hundred, a subdivision of the county, the nature of which is not known with certainty. In the Dialogus de Scaccario, it is said that a hunred 'ex hydarum aliquot centenariis, sed non determinatis constat; quidam enim ex pluribus, quidam ex pauucioribus constat.' Some accounts make it consist of precisely a hundred hides: others, of a hundred tithing, or of a hundred fee families. Certain it is that whatever may have been its original organization, the hundred, at the period when it became known to us, differed greatly as to the extent in the several parts of England. This division is ascribed to King Alfred, and he may possibly have introduced it into England, though it was established among the Franks in the sixth century. In the capitularies of Charlemagne we meet with it in the form known among us, Capit. 1. 3, c. x. See HUNDREDORS....
Chiltern hundreds
Chiltern hundreds. A member of the House of Commons cannot resign his seat. He may, however, become disqualified by acceptance of an office of profit under the Crown. A member therefore usually vacates his seat by the acceptance of the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, or some other nominal office in the gift of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The practice began about the year 1750; but the duties and profits of the stewardship have long since ceased, and the office is only retained to serve this particular purpose. The Chiltern Hills, a range of chalk eminences separating the counties of Bedford and Hertford, were formerly covered with thick beechwood, and sheltered numerous robbers; to put these marauders down, and protect the inhabitants of the neighbourhood from their depredations, an officer was appointed under the Crown called the Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, which were Burnham, Desborough and Stoke.The Crown, for the convenience of the House at large, is ordinarily rea...
Hundred-lagh or Hundred-law
Hundred-lagh or Hundred-law, a hundred Court....
Hundred Court
Hundred Court, a larger Court-baron, being held for all the inhabitants of a particular hundred instead of a manor. The free suitors were here also the judges, and the steward the registrar, as in the case of court-baron. It was not a Court of record; it resembled a court-baron in all points except that in point of territory it was of a greater jurisdiction. It was denominated h'reda in the in the Gothic constitution. Causes were removed by the same writ as from a Court-baron, and its proceedings might be reviewed by writ of false judgment. The court is become obsolete, but the County Courts Act, 1888, s. 6, re-enacting s. 14 of the County Courts Act, 1846, still treated it as existing, by providing for the surrender of the right of hold it. The Salford Hundred Court of Record still exists under special statutory provision. See County Courts (Amendment) Act, 1934 (24 & 35 Geo. 5, c. 17), s. 34, which repealed s. 6 as obsolete....
Hundred-fecta
Hundred-fecta, the performance of suit and service at the hundred Court....
Hundred-penny
Hundred-penny, the hundredfeh, or tax collected by the sheriff or lord of a hundred....
Hundred-setena
Hundred-setena, dwellers or inhabitants of a hundred, Char. Edg. Regis Mon. Glaston. An. 12 Reg.; Dugd. Mon., tom. i. p. 27, Edn. 1817....
Oswald's law hundred
Oswald's law hundred, an ancient hundred in Worcestershire, so called from Bishop Oswald, who obtained it from King Edgar to be given to St. Mary's Church in Worcester. It was exempt from the sheriff's jurisdiction, and comprehends 300 hides of land, Camd. Brit....
Hundred
The product of ten multiplied by ten or the number of ten times ten a collection or sum consisting of ten times ten units or objects five score Also a symbol representing one hundred units as 100 or C...
One Hundred Thousand Pounds Clause
One Hundred Thousand Pounds Clause, a clause in the conveyance by the tenant-in-tail to the tenant to the pr'cipe, which provided that if the latter did not pay 100,000l. (or some other sum grossly in excess of the value of the land) on a specified date subsequent to the recovery, the estate of the tenant to the pr'cipe was to be avoided. See 1 Preston's Conveyancing, 109 and 110; and see RECOVERY....
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