For contributions given to support a religious organization, see
tithe.
The English land division called the tithing was a grouping of ten households (Scandinavian: ten = ti, assembly = thing). Allied to this concept was a local administrative unit also called a tithing or tything, with essentially legal responsibilities, exercised by a "tithingman".[1] Both meanings originated in Anglo-Saxon times, through arrangements for the management of estates, taxation and criminal law, for example in the procedure known as "view of frankpledge." In Kent, the equivalent to a tithing was a "borgh", or "borough", not to be confused with ancient boroughs,[2] and the equivalent to the tithingman was the "borsholder", "borough-holder" or "headborough".[3]
[edit] References
[edit] See also
|
|
|
|
Smallcaps indicate a type used by ten or more countries.
|
|
| Current English terms |
|
|
Current non-English
and loanword terms |
|
|
Defunct and historical
English terms |
|
|
Defunct and historical
non-English terms |
|
|
|
|
|
