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VILL , the Anglicized See also:

form of the word See also:villa, used in Latin documents to translate the Anglo-Saxon See also:tun, township, " the unit of the constitutional machinery, the simplest form of social organization " (See also:Stubbs, Const. Hist. § 39). The word did not always and at all times have this meaning in Latin-See also:English documents, but " will " and " township " were ultimately, in English See also:law, treated as convertible terms for describing a See also:village community, and they remained in use in legal nomenclature until the ecclesiastical parishes were converted into areas for See also:civil See also:administration under the Poor Law Acts. This technical sense is derived from the See also:late Latin use of villa for vicus, a village. Thus See also:Fleta (vi. c. 51), See also:writing in the See also:time of See also:Edward I., distinguishes the villa, as a collection of habitations and their See also:appurtenances, from the mansio, a single See also:house, nulli irking, and the See also:manor, which may embrace one or more villae. In classical Latin villa had meant " See also:country-house," " See also:farm," " villa " (see VILLA) ; but the word was probably an See also:abbreviation of vicula, diminutive of vicus, and in the sense of vicus it is used by See also:Apuleius in the 2nd See also:century. Later it even displaced civitas, for See also:city; thus Rutilius Numatianus in his See also:Itinerarium speaks of villae ingentes, oppida parva; whence the See also:French ville (see Du Cange, Glossarium See also:lat. s.v. Villa). In the Frankish See also:empire villa was also used of the royal and imperial palaces or seats with their appurtenances.

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