Municipal
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
Strictly this word applies only to what belongs to a city. Among the Romans, cities were Called municipia: these cities voluntarily joined the Roman republic in relation to their sovereignty only, retaining their laws, their liberties, and their magistrates, who were thence called municipal magistrates. Withus this word hasa more extensive meaning, for example we call municipal law, not the law of a city only, but the law of the state.
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