HUNDRED
A political subdivision in old England.
Under the Saxons, each shire or county in
England was divided into a number of hun-
dreds, which were made up of ten tithings each.
The tithings were groups of ten families of free-
holders. The hundred was governed by a high
constable and had its own local court called the
Hundred Court. The most remarkable feature
of the hundred was the collective responsibility
of all the inhabitants for the crimes or defaults of
