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VILLAGE

Any small assemblage of houses for dwellings or business, or both, in the country, whether they are situated upon regularly laid out streets and alleys or not constitutes a village. Hebert v.

GRETNA GREEN MARRIAGE

A marriage celebrated at Gretna, iu Dumfries, (bordering on the county of Cumberland,)iu Scotland. By the law of Scotland a valid marriage may be contracted by consentalone, without any other formality. When

HAMLET

A small village; a part or member of a vill. It is the diminutive of “ham,” avillage. Cowell. See Rex. v. Morris, 4 Term, 552.

STREET

An urban way or thoroughfare ; a road or public way in a city, towu, or village, generally paved, aud lined or intended to be lined by houses on each side. See

TOWN

In English law. Originally, a vill or tithing; but now a generic term, which comprehends under it the several species of cities, boroughs, and common towns. I Bl. Comm. 114. In American

WICK

Sax. A village, town, or district. Hence, in composition, the territory overwhich a given jurisdiction extends. Thus, “bailiwick” is the territorial jurisdiction of abailiff or sheriff or constable. “Sheriffwick” was also used

PYKE, PAIK

In Hindu law. A foot- passenger ; a person employed as a night- watch in a village, and as a runner or messenger on the business of the revenue. Wharton.

PUEBLO

In Spanish law. People; all the inhabitants of any country or place, without distinction. A town, township, or municipality. White, New Itecop. b. 2, tit. 1, c. 6, I 4. This term

COMMOTION

A “civil commotion” Is an insurrection of the people for general purposes, though it may not amount to re- COMMUNE 229 COMMUNIS OPINIO belllon where there is a usurped power. 2 Marsh.

CENTENI

The principal inhabitants of a ccntena, or district composed of different villages, originally in number a hundred, but afterwards only called by that name

BEREWICHA, OR BEREWTCA

In old English law. A term used in Domesday for a village or hamlet belonging to some town or manor.

CIUDADES

Sp. In Spanish law, cities; distinguished from towns (pueblos) and villages (villas.) Hart v. Burnett, 15 Cal. 537.

CACICAZGOS

In Spanish-American law. Property entailed on the caciques, or heads of Indian villages, and their descendants. Sehm. Civil Law, 309.

BOURG

In old French law. An assemblage of houses surrounded with walls; a fortified town or village. In old English law. A borough, a village.

CANTRED

A district comprising a hundred villages; a hundred. A term used in Wales in the same sense as “hundred” is in England. Cowell; Termes de la Ley.

CORVEET IN FRENCH LAW

Gratuitous labor exacted from the villages or communities, especially for repairing roads, constructing bridges, etc. State v. Covington, 125 N. C. 641, 34 S. E. 272.

MARK

1. A character, usually in the form of a cross, made as a substitute for his signature by a person who cannot write, in executing a conveyance or other legal docu- ment.

POLLIGAR, POLYGAR

In Hindu law. The head of a village or district; also a military chieftain In the peninsula, answering to a hill zemindar in the northern drears. Wharton.

OUTLOT

In early American land law, (particularly in Missouri,) a lot or parcel of land lying outside the corporate limits of a town or village but subject to its municipal jurisdiction or control.

NOMINA VIEEARUM

In English law. An account of the names of all the villages and the possessors thereof, in each county, drawn up by several sheriffs, (9 Edw. II.,) and returned by them into