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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Centumvir \Cen*tum"vir\, n.; pl. {Centumviri}. [L., fr. centum
     hundred + Vir man.] (Rom. Hist.)
     One of a court of about one hundred judges chosen to try
     civil suits. Under the empire the court was increased to 180,
     and met usually in four sections.
     [1913 Webster]



From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CENTUMVIRI, civil law. the citizens of Rome were distributed into thirty-
  five tribes, and three persons out of each tribe were elected judges, who 
  were called centumviri, although they were one hundred and five in number. 
  They were distributed into four different tribunals, but in certain causes 
  called centumvirales causas, the judgments of the four tribunals were 
  necessary. Vicat,.ad verb.; 3 Bl. Com. 315. 
  
  

















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