1. Formerly, a county subdivision that had its own local court.
“The hundred was a group of adjoining townships. It may have consisted of an area taxed at one hundred hides. Other explanations of the term ‘hundred’ are that the unit may have consisted of one hundred households, or the area had to supply one hundred fighting men for the national defence.” L.B. Curzon, English Legal History 7 (2d ed. 1979).
2. The populace of such a subdivision.
3. See hundred court under COURT.
4. In the United States, a political division derived from the English county division. • Hundreds existed in colonial Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Today, they exist only in Delaware. — hundredal (hun-dri-d[schwa]l), adj.
