Council

An assembly of persons for the purpose of concerting measures of state or municipal policy; hence called "councillors."

In American law. The legislative body in the government of cities or boroughs. An advisory body selected to aid the executive; particularly in the colonial period (and at present in some of the United States) a body appointed to advise and assist the governor in his executive or judicial capacities or both.

— Common council. In American law. The lower or more numerous branch of the legislative assembly of a city. In English law. The councillors of the city of London. The parliament, also, was anciently called the "common council of the' realm." Fleta, 2, 13.

— Privy council. See that title.

— Select council. The name given, in some states, to the upper house or branch of the council of a city.