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Meaning of Centena
(Law Lat. from centum, a hundred). 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; Esprit des Lois, liv. 30, c. 17. The Saxon division is also sometimes called centena, but is more commonly rendered in law Latin, hundredum, or hundredus. Spelman. See “Hundred;” “Centenarius;” “Centeni.” I In Old Records and Pleadings. A hundred weight. Centena pisctium, a hundred weight of fish. Pryn. 303. Centena eerae zucarii, piperis, cumini, etc., continet tredecim petras et dimidium, the hundred weight of wax, sugar, pepper, cummin, etc., contains thirteen stone and a half. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 12. 4. See Cro. Eliz. 754.
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Concept of “Centena”
Traditional meaning of centena in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) A hundred (see this last concept in this legal reference),
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Centena”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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