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Township, the district of a town, tithing, or vill, which three are of the same signification in law.-Steph. Com., vol. 1, Introduction. The township is the unit of the early constitutional machinery in England (Stubbs's Constitutional History of England, vol. 1, p. 82), and the boundaries of the parish, and the township or townships with which it coincides, are generally the same (ibid.), 'parish' being properly the ecclesiastical term, and 'township' the civil one.In a government survey a square tract six miles on each side, containing thirty six sq. miles of land 2. In some states, a civil and political subdivision of country, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1498...
Tithing
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....
Way
Way [fr. w'g, Sax.; weigh, Dut.; vig or wig, M. Goth.], road made for passengers.1. A passage or pat 2. A right to travel over another's property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1587.There are three kinds of ways:-1st, a footway (iter); 2nd, a footway and horseway (actus, vulgarly called packe and prime way; 3rd, via or aditus, which contains the other two, and also a cartway, etc.; and this is two-fold, viz., regia via, the king's highway for all men, and communis strata, belonging to a city or town or between neighbours and neighbours. This is called in our books chimin, Co. Litt. 56 a.All ways are divided into highways and private ways. A right of way strictly means a private way, i.e. a privilege which an individual or a particular description of persons may have of going over another's ground. Such a right is an incorporeal hereditament.A highway is a public passage for the sovereign and all his subjects, and it is commonly called the king's public highway; and the turnpike ...
constable
constable [Old French conestable military commander, chief of the royal household, from Late Latin comes stabuli, literally, officer of the stable] : a public officer usually of a town or township responsible for keeping the peace and for minor judicial duties ...
supervisor
supervisor : one that directs or oversees a person, group, department, organization, or operation ;specif : the popularly elected chief administrative official of a township or other subdivision in some states of the U.S. ...
Chazy epoch
An epoch at the close of the Canadian period of the American Lower Silurian system so named from a township in Clinton Co New York See the Diagram under Geology...
Deme
A territorial subdivision of Attica also of modern Greece corresponding to a township...
deputy
One appointed as the substitute of another and empowered to act for him in his name or his behalf a substitute in office a lieutenant a representative a delegate a vicegerent as the deputy of a prince of a sheriff of a township etc...
Folk
In Anglo Saxon times the people of a group of townships or villages a community a tribe...
Common
Common, a profit which a man has in the land of another; it derives its name from the community of interest which thence arises between the claimant and the owner of the soil, or between the claimant and other commoners entitled to the same right; all which parties are entitled to bring actions for injuries done to their respective interests, and that both as against strangers and against each other. It is called an incorporeal right, which lies in grant, as if originally commencing in some agreement between lords and tenants, for some valuable consideration which, by lapse of time, being formed into a prescription, continues, although there be no deed or instrument in writing which proves the original contract or agreement. It differs from a rent, principally in freedom of enjoyment on the one hand, and in freedom from obligation on the other; which the law expresses by the quaint antithesis that it lies not in render but in prender. It is also incidentally distinguished by its fruits...
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