Under the Saxon orgauiza-tion of England, each county or shire corn-prised an indefinite number of hundreds, each hundred containing ten titMngs, or groups of ten families of freeholders or frank-pledges. The hundred was governed by a high constable, and had its own conrt; but its most remarkable feature was the corporate responsibility of the whole for the crimes or defaults of the Individual members. The introduction of this plan of or-ganization into England is commonly ascrib-ed to Alfred, but the idea, as well of the collective liability as of the division, was prob-ably known to the ancient German peoples, as we find the 6ame thing established in the Frankish kingdom under Clothaire, and in Denmark. See 1 BL Comm. 115; 4 BL Comm. 411