Hundred

Subdivision of a county in parts of England and of the U. S.; union of townships for purposes of defense or administration. It dates from a very early period of Germanic history, and had mostly disappeared in England by 1560. The name is common in the early period of Va.. was used in Md. till 1824, and is still employed in Delaware. The Hundred Court, now obsolete, in which the freemen were the judges and the steward the registrar, was not a court of record; its proceedings were reviewable by writ of false judgment.