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Rhandir
Rhandir, a part in the division of Wales before the Conquest; every township comprehended four gavels, and every gavel had four rhandirs, and four houses or tenements constituted every rhandir, Taylor's
Special constables
witness that any tumult, riot, or felony has taken place or may be reasonably apprehended in any parish, township, or place,' if the justices are of opinion that the ordinary constables are insufficient for that purpose. See
Vill, or village
Vill, or village, a manor; a parish; the out-part of a parish, 1 Steph. Com. A town or township, the simplest form of social organization; see Stubbs's Const. History of England, vol. i. p. 82; Williams on
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Folk
In Anglo Saxon times the people of a group of townships or villages a community a tribe
Common
which supposes a now forgotten grant. (c) Because of vicinage or neighbourhood where the tenants of two adjoining townships have suffered their cattle to range indiscriminately over both wastes, and it seems that either lord may put
Highways
upon the parishes in which they respectively lie; but in some cases it attaches (by prescription) to particular townships, or other divisions of parishes, and occasionally to private persons bound ratione tenur', or in right of their
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