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CENTENA Definition & Legal Meaning

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A hundred. A district or division containing originally a hundred freemen, established among the Goths, Germans, Franks, and Lombards, for military and civil purposes, and answering to the Saxon “hundred.” Spelman; 1 Bl. Comm. 115. Also, in old records and pleadings, a hundred weight

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