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Definition of Tithings
1. tithing [n] - See also: tithing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tithings
Literary usage of Tithings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"Could tithings. a youth choose his tithing ? Could a tithing expel or refuse to
admit a member whose bad character would make him burdensome ? ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"tithings, towns or vills.—tithings, towns, or vills are of the same signification
in law; and are said to have had. each of them, originally a church and ..."
3. Evolution by Atrophy in Biology and Sociology by Jean Demoor, Jean Massart, Emile Vandervelde (1899)
"tithings, hundreds and counties in England.— In the chapter dealing with the
pathway of degeneration in Transformisme social, G. Degreef mentions the ..."
4. Consuetudines Kanciae: A History of Gavelkind, and Other Remarkable Customs by Charles Sandys (1851)
"Ten of these tithings or boroughs originally constituted the hundred, whose chief
was denominated ..."
5. Consuetudines Kanciae, a history of gavelkind and other remarkable customs by Charles Sandys (1851)
"Ten of these tithings or boroughs originally constituted the hundred, whose chief
was denominated ..."
6. Our New West: Records of Travel Between the Mississippi River and the by Samuel Bowles (1869)
"... of Labor and Immigration—Character of the Population and of the Rulers—The
Close Church and State Government—Education —"The tithings"—Brigham Young and ..."
7. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"... one which was purely political; the police duties which at first devolved upon
the kindred passed to the members of the tithings and hundreds. ..."
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