Chiltern Hundreds
- (in the UK) a Crown manor, whose administration is a nominal office for which an MP applies as a way of resigning from the House of Commons. This is because stewardship of the district is legally an office of profit under the Crown, the holding of which disqualifies a person from being an MP.(英国)奇尔特恩诸邑(王室采邑, 其执事为一虚职, 下院议员如欲辞职必先求得该职位。根据法律该执事职位乃王室下的有饷职位, 因此取得此职位便不得成为下院议员)。
词源
from CHITERN HILLS and Hundreds (see the noun HUNDRED).