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Hundred court
Hundred Hun"dred, n. [OE. hundred, AS. hundred a territorial division; hund hundred + a word akin to Goth. ga-ra?jan to count, L. ratio reckoning, account; akin to OS. hunderod, hund, D. hondred, G. hundert, OHG. also hunt, Icel. hundra?, Dan. hundrede, Sw. hundra, hundrade, Goth. hund, Lith. szimtas, Russ. sto, W. cant, Ir. cead, L. centum, Gr. ?, Skr. [,c]ata. [root]309. Cf. Cent, Century, Hecatomb, Quintal, and Reason.] 1. The product of ten mulitplied 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. With many hundreds treading on his heels. --Shak. Note: The word hundred, as well as thousand, million, etc., often takes a plural form. We may say hundreds, or many hundreds, meaning individual objects or units, but with an ordinal numeral adjective in constructions like five hundreds, or eight hundreds, it is usually intended to consider each hundred as a separate aggregate; as, ten hundreds are one thousand. 2. A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or freemen. Hundred court, a court held for all the inhabitants of a hundred. [Eng.] --Blackstone.

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- some hundreds, courts were held at a fixed place; while in others, courts moved with each sitting to a different location. The main duty of the hundred court...
- Record of our Sovereign Lord the King for his Hundred or Wapentake of Salford. Exceptionally for hundred courts, Salford survived until the 19th century....
- the hundred court. It is possible that local thegns (or their bailiffs) controlled the court and made its decisions. Decisions of a hundred court could...
- jurisdiction, which was normally restricted to the hundred courts. The word "leet", as used in reference to special court proceedings, dates from the late 13th century...
- Sports Ground), where the hundred court originally met. The Domesday Book of 1096 describes the many parishes of Bullingdon hundred as being dependencies...
- the 19th century there were 33 hundreds. The leet court boundaries were more fluid and transient than the hundred court boundaries. At the time of Domesday...
- The Hundred Years' War (French: Guerre de Cent Ans; 1337–1453) was a conflict between the kingdoms of England and France and a civil war in France during...
- units called hundreds. The hundred court met every two to four w****s and was attended by local landholders. Twice a year the hundred court met with the...
- Court of Appeal; an issue had to have been rejected three times by a hundred court before it was p****ed up to the shire court. Using multiple courts often...
- courts such as the Hundred Courts and Court of Piepowders. The Court of King's Bench heard all complaints and pleas addressed to the King. This court...