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Munera

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

The name given to grants made in the early feudal ages, which were merely tenancies at, will, or during the pleasure of the grantor.

Dalr. Feud. Prop. 198, 199; Wright, Ten. 19.

MUNICEPS (Lat. from munus, office, and capere, to take). In Roman law. Eligible to office. A freeman born in a municipality or town other than Rome, who had come to Rome, and, though a Roman citizen, yet was looked down upon as a provincial, and not allowed to hold the higher offices (dignitates.) The inhabitants of a municipality entitled to hold municipal offices. Vocat; Calv. Lex.