CiTitas
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
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In old English law
A city, properly the inhabitants. Ci Titas London habeat omnes antiquas libertates: the city of London shall have all its ancient liberties. In the Roman law. Citizenship; one of the three conditions or qualifications of persons; a body of people living under the same laws; a state. Civitates foederatse: towns in alliance with Rome, and considered to be free.