"County" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
The name given to the principal subdivisions of the kingdom of Eng-land and of most of the states of the American Union, denoting a distinct portion of territory organized by Itself for political and Judicial purposes. The etymology of the word shows it to have been the district an-ciently governed by a count or earl. In mod-em use, the word may denote elther the ter-rltory marked off to form a county, or the citizens resident within such territory, tak-en collectively and consldered as invested with polltlcal rights, or the county regarded as a municipal corporation possessing subordinate governmental powers, or an organ-lzed .jural society invested with specific rights and duties. Patterson v. Temple, 27 Ark. 207; Eagle v. Beard, 33 Ark. 501; wooster v. Plymouth, 62 N. H. 208
An earldom; the domain of a count or earl.
A circuit or particular portion of a state or kingdom,
separated from the rest of the territory, for certain purposes in the
administration of justice and public affairs; -- called also a shire.
See Shire.
A count; an earl or lord.
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It was well known that a certain lake was very poor for fishing up north, but a game warden happened to notice that one guy kept coming home with his limit of fish on several occations. He asked the guy: "How is it that you are catching fish out of that lake when no one else can?" The guy replied: "Well I am going back up there tommorow, why don't you come along?" And, so the warden did. They were in the boat when the fisherman reached over and lit a stick of dynamite and then tossed it overboard. BOOM!!! There were fish floating to the surface all over! The game warden freaked out, and said: "You can't do that! That's illeagal!" The fisherman reached over and lit another stick and said: "Are you going to fish, or talk?"
In oid English law. A county or shire; the body of a county. The territorial jurisdiction of a comes, i. …
Read the complete definitionFr. A count or earl. In the ancient French law, the comte was an officer having jurisdiction over a particular …
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