Usage examples (11)

• And therefore, anciently, no man was suffered to abide in England above forty days, unless he were enrolled in some tithing or decennary.
• If he fled, either before or after finding sureties, the borsholder and decennary became liable to inquiry, and were exposed to the penalties of law.
• The borsholder summoned together his whole decennary to assist him in deciding any lesser differences which occurred among the members of this small community.
• The administration of justice, in particular, by the courts of the decennary, the hundred, and the county, was well calculated to defend general liberty, and to restrain...