A constable’s or police dis-trict. The immediate neighborhood of a palace or court. A poll-diatrlct. See Union Pac. Ry. Co. v. Ryan, 113 U. S. 516, 5 Sup. Ct 601, 28 L. Ed. 1098; Railway Co. v. oconto, 50 wis. 189, 6 N. W. 607, 36 Am. Rep. 840; State v. Anslinger, 171 Mo. 600, 71 S. W. 1041
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
