Precinct
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Precinct
A constable's or police district. A small geographical unit of government. An election district created for convenient localization of polling places. A county or municipal subdivision for casting and counting votes in elections.
West's Encyclopedia of American Law, edition 2. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
PRECINCT. The district for which a high or petty constable is appointed, is
in England, called a precinct. Willc. Office of Const. xii.
2. In day time all persons are bound to recognize a constable acting
within his own precincts; after night the constable is required to make
himself known, and it is, indeed, proper he should do so at all times. Ibid.
n. 265, p. 93.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.