Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In England, a court held for the inhabitants of a hundred.
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His tribunal is the old Germanic hundred-court, in which the free suitors ought to be the judges; but the suitors for this purpose are represented by a few doomsmen (_scabini_) chosen for their respectability and knowledge of the law.
Medieval Europe 1901
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