Civitas
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. [from civis, a citizen.] In the Roman law. Any body of people living under the same laws; a state. Jus civitatis; the law of a state; civil law.
Inst. 1. 2. 1, 2.
Citizenship; one of the three status, conditions or qualifications of persons.
1 Mackeld. Civ. Law, 129, § 119.