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are contained In the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences 
from 1729 to 1742. Some of the molt curious of his ob- 
fervations relate to the formation of the bones of the Ikull, 
and to the lymphatics of the lungs. He publilhed ano- 
nymoufly in 1726 a critique, in form of letters, on Petit’s 
book on the difeafes of the bones. One of his lalt works 
was a Difputation on Anchylofis, 1742. 
To HUNCH, v. a. \_hufch, Ger.] To ftrike or punch 
with the fills.—Jack’s friends began to hunch and pufh 
one another: why don't you go and cut the poor fellow 
down? Arbuthnot. —[ Hoc/tor, a crooked back, Ger.] To 
crook the back : 
Thy crooked mind within hunch'd, out thy back ; 
And wander’d in thy limbs. Dryden. 
HUNCH,/ A protuberance, a pretty large irregular 
piece; a blow with the elbow or fid. 
HUNCH-BACK'ED, adj. Having a crooked back.— 
His perfon deformed to the higheft degree, flat-nofed, and 
hunch-backed. VFJlrange. 
HUND'BERG, a town of Denmark, in North Jutland: 
eight miles fouth-wed of Aalbork. 
HUN'DERSRUCK, a town of Germany, in Lower Sax¬ 
ony, and bilhopric of Hildelheim, fituated between the 
Weferand the Leine, near Eimbeck. 
HUN'DERTBUHL, a town of Tranfilvania: twelve 
miles fouth of Schelburgh. 
HUN'DRED, adj. [hunb, and hunbjteb, Sax. honderd, 
Dut.] The number confiding of ten multiplied by ten : 
A hundred altars in her temple fmoke, 
A thouiand bleeding hearts her pow’r invoke. Dryden. 
HUN'DRED,/ A company, body, or collection con¬ 
fiding of a hundred.—Lands, taken from the enemy, were 
divided into centuries or hundreds, and ditlributed amongd 
the foldiers. Arbuthnot. 
HUN'DRED, an ancient part or divifion of a fhire ; fo 
called, either becaufe of old each hundred found one hun¬ 
dred fidejufl’ors of the king’s peace, or a hundred able 
men for his wars. But more probably it is fo called, be- 
caufe it was compoled of a hundred families. It is true, 
Brompton tells us, that a hundred contains centum, villas ; 
and Giraldus Cambrenfis writes, that the Hie of Man hath 
343 villas. But in tbefie places the word villa mult be 
taken for a country family ; for it cannot mean a village, 
becaufe there are not above forty villages in that illand. 
So where Lombard lays, that a hundred is fo called, a 
numero centum hominum, it mull be underltood of a hundred 
men who are heads or chiefs of fo many families. Thefe 
were firll ordained by king Alfred, the twenty-ninth king 
of the Well Saxons. This dividing counties into hun¬ 
dreds, for better government, king Alfred brought from 
Germany : for there centa, or centena, is a jurifdiction 
over a hundred towns. 1 Blackfl. Comm. 115. 
In ancient times, it was ordained for the more fure 
keeping of the peace, that ail free-born men lhould call 
themlelves into feveral companies by ten in each com¬ 
pany, and that every of thefe ten men lhould be furety 
and pledge for the forth-coming of his fellows. For 
which caufe thefe companies in fome places were called 
tithings; and,as ten times ten makes a hundred,fo, becaufe 
it was alfo appointed that ten of thefe tithings lhould at 
certain times meet together for matters of greater weight, 
therefore that general alfembly was called a hundred. Lamb. 
Conjl. The hundred is governed by a high conltable or 
bailiff; and formerly there was regularly held in it the 
hundred-court, for the trial of caufes, though now fallen 
into difufe. In fome of the more northern counties thefe 
hundreds are called wapentakes, y Blackfl. Comm. c. 33. 
This is the original of hundreds, which llill retain the 
name, but the jurifdiction is devolved to the county-court, 
fome few excepted, which have been by privilege annexed 
to the crown, or granted to fome great fubjeft, and fo re¬ 
main Hill in the nature of a franchife. This has been 
ever fince the fiat. 14 Edw. III. c. 9, whereby thele hun- 
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dred-courts, formerly farmed out by the IherifF to other 
men, were all, or the moll part, reduced to the county- 
court. But new, by hundred-courts, we underlland feveral 
franchifes, wherein the Iherilf has nothing to do by his 
ordinary authority, except they of the hundred refufe to 
do their office. Every ward in London is a hundred in a 
county, and every parilh in London is a vill in a hun¬ 
dred. 9 Rep. 66. 
Hundreds are liable to penalty on exportation of wool, 
7 and 8 Will. III. c. 28. Liable to damages fullained by 
riotoully pulling down buildings, 1 Geo. 1 . 11 . 2. c. 5. By 
killing cattle, cutting down trees, burning houfes, &c. 
9 Geo. I. c. 22. 29 Geo. II. c. 36. By deltroying turn¬ 
pikes, or works on navigable rivers, 8 Geo. II. c. 20. By 
cutting liop-binds, 10 Geo. II. c. 32. By dellroying com 
to prevent exportation, 11 Geo. II. c. 22. By w'ounding 
officers of the cudoms, 19 Geo. II. c. 34. By dellroying 
woods, See. 29 Geo. II. c. 36. So in cafes of robbery; 
and for the dedruflion of mines or pits of coal. See Hue 
and Cry. 
HUN'DRED-COURT, a kind of court-baron, held for 
all the inhabitants of a particular hundred inltead of a 
manor. The free fuitors are here the judges, and the 
Reward the register, as in the cafe of a court-baron. It 
is not a court of record, and it relembles a court-baron 
in all points, except that in point of territory it is of a 
greater jurisdiction. According to Blackllone, its inlli- 
tution was probably coeval with that of hundreds them- 
felves, introduced, though not invented, by Alfred, being 
derived from the policy of the ancient Germans. 
HUN'DRED-FEC'TA, / An old law term, the per¬ 
formance of fuit and fervice at the hundred-court. 
HUNDRED-FETE'NA,/ An old law term, the con- 
llitution of a hundred, the inhabitants of a hundred. 
HUNDRED-PEN'NY, / A tax formerly raifed in the 
hundred by the IherifF. 
HUN'DRED-WEIGHT,/ A weight confining of one 
hundred and twelve pounds. 
HUN'DREDORS, perfons ferving on juries, or fit to 
be impanelled thereon for trials, dwelling within the hun¬ 
dred where the land in quellion lies. Stat. 35 Hen. VIII. 
c. 6. And default of hundredors was a challenge or ex¬ 
ception to panels of flieriffs, by our law, till the ltat. 4 and 
5 Anne, c. 16. ordained, that, to prevent delays by reafon 
of challenges to panels of jurors for default of hun¬ 
dredors, &c. writs of venire facias for trial of any action 
in the courts at Wedminder (hall be awarded of the 
body of the proper county where the ifi’ue is triable. 
Hundredor alfo fignifies him that hath the jurifdiction of 
the hundred, and is in fome places applied to the bailiff 
of the hundred. 13 Edw. I. c. 38. 9 Edw. II. 2 Edw. III. . 
HUN'DREDLAGH, or Hundred-law,/ ah old law 
term. The hundred-court. 
HUN'DREDTH, adj. [hunbpeonteo^opa, Sax.] The 
ordinal of a hundred ; the tenth ten times told.—We (hall 
not need to ule the hundredth part of that time, which 
themfelves bellow in making inveftives. Hooker. 
HUN'DREDUS,/. in old records, a hundred, a divifion 
of a county. 
HUNDS'FELD, a town of Silefia, in the principality 
of the Oels: eleven miles weft-fouth-wed of Oels. 
IIUND'SHAIM, a town of Germany, in the archduchy 
of Auitria : two miles fouth of Hamburg. 
HUND'SHUBEL, a town of Germany, in Upper Sax¬ 
ony, and territory of Erzgeburg: leven miles well of 
Schwarzenberg. 
HUNDS'MARCK, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
of Stiria, on the Muehr. A battle was fought near this 
town between the Aullrians and the troops of the French 
republic, on the 3d of April, 1797, in which the latter 
were victorious ; the Aullrians loll about 300 killed, and 
600 prifoners. Fourteen miles weil-louth-vvell of Juden- 
burg, and eighteen"eaft-north-eall of Muhrau. 
HUNDS'RUCK, or Hunds-Ruck, a dillricl of Ger¬ 
many, in the tipper Rhine, fituated between the Rhine, 
the 
