| 释义 |
demi-vill Constit. Hist. rare.
[AF. demie vile half town or vill.]
A half-vill or ‘town’; the half of a vill (when this was divided between two lords) as a political unit.
The Anglo-French word occurs frequently in the Statute cited, but in the Record ed. is translated half-town.
c1200Stat. Exeter (? 14 Edw. I) Stat. I. 210 Les nuns de totes les viles, demie viles, e hamelez, ke sunt en son Wap', Hundred e Franchise [transl. The names of all the Towns, Half-towns, and Hamlets, within his Wapentake, etc.]. 1765Blackstone Comm. i. Introd. iv. 111 The statute of Exeter, which makes frequent mention of entire vills, demi-vills, and hamlets. |