in Roman Antiquity, judges appointed to decide common causes among the people. Three were chosen out of each tribe; and, though five more than a hundred, were nevertheless called centumviri, from the round number centum, a hundred. The extent of their powers in civil causes has not been completely ascertained. Some have asserted that they also took cognizance in criminal matters, but this is doubtful.—(See Hollweg, Uber die Com- pentenz des Centumviralgerichts; Tigerström, De Judicibus apud Romanos.)