HUNDREDORS. In England they are inhabitants of a local division of a county,
who, by several statutes, are held to be liable in the cases therein
specified, to make good the loss sustained by persons within the hundred, by
robbery or other violence, therein also specified. The principal of these
statutes are, 13 Edw. I. st. 2, c. 1, s. 4; 28 Edw. III. c. 11; 27 Eliz. c.
13; 29 Car. II. c. 7; 8 Geo. II. c. 16; 22 Geo. II. c. 24.