Urban Servitudes
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Servitudes attached to an urban estate, such as the right of support, of drip, of drain, etc.
3 Kent, Comm. 436.
URBS (Lat.) In civil law.
A walled city
Often used for civitas.
Ainsworth.
It is the same as oppidum, only larger. Urbs, or urbs aurea, meant Rome.
Du Cange
In the case of Rome, urbs included the suburbs.
Dig. 50. 16. 2. pr.
It is derived from urbum, a part of the plough by which the walls of a city are first marked out.
Ainsworth.
URE (Norman-French; from Lat. opera, a work). "Operation" or "effect." To put in ure, therefore, is to put in operation.
See St. 13 Eliz. c. 2, § 1.