Municipal

“Municipal” signifies that which belongs Co a corporation or a city. The term includes the rules or laws by which a particular district, community, or nation is governed, It may also mean loeal, particular, independent. 43 Ala. 598. “Municipal,” in one of its meanings, is used in opposition to “international,” and denotes that which pertains or belongs properly to ax individual state or separate community, as distinguished from that which is common to, or observed be tween, all nations. Thus, piracy is an “interns. tional offense, "and is denounced by “international law,” but smuggling is a “municipal offense,” and coguizable by “municipal law.”