What is CITY? Definition of CITY in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
In England
An incorporated town or borough which is or has been the see of a bishop. Co.Litt. 108; 1 Bl. Comm. 114; Cowell; 1 Steph.Comm. 115. State v. Green, 126 N.C. 1032, 35 S.E. 462. There is said, however, to be no necessary connection between a city and a see. Oxford Diet., citing Freeman. A large town incorporated with certain privileges. The inhabitants of a city. The citizens. Worcester.
In America
A municipal corporation; Streat v. Vermilya, 268 Mich. 1, 255 N.W. 604, 606; also the territory within the corporate limits. Municipal Power Transmission Co. v. City of Lyndon, 127 Kan. 59, 272 P. 158, 160.
A large town or municipal corporation, State v. Haynes, 175 Ark. 645, 300 S.W. 380, 382; a political entity or subdivision for governmental purposes, Nolan v. Jones, 215 Ky. 238, 284 S.W. 1054, 1056; a public institution for self-government, Loeb v. City of Jacksonville, 101 Fla. 429, 134 So. 205, 207; a public corporation for public purposes, Chase v. Inhabitants of Town of Litchfield, 134 Me. 122, 182 A. 921, 924.
A state agency for carrying on local government. Hudson Motor Car Co. v. City of Detroit, 282 Mich. 69, 275 N. W. 770, 773, 113 A.L.R. 1472; a voluntary association or corporation. State ex rel. McQueen v. Brandon, 244 Ala. 62, 12 So.2d 319, 322; Leviton v. Board of Education of City of Chicago, 374 Ill. 594, 30 N.E.2d 497, 500.
The fundamental distinction between town and city organization is that in the former all the qualified inhabitants meet together to deliberate and vote as individuals, each in his own right, while in the latter all municipal functions are performed by deputies; the one being direct, the other representative. In re Opinion of the Justices, 229 Mass. 601, 119 N.E. 778, 781.
The word "city," however, is often used to include an incorporated town. Noble v. State, 112 Tex.Cr.R. 676, 18 S. W.2d 619, 620; and to include villages, People v. City of Chicago, 349 Ill. 304, 182 N.E. 419, 431. It has also been held that, under statutes, the term includes all municipal corporations and corporate authorities, such as a board of park commissioners; People v. Kesner, 321 Ill. 230, 151 N. E. 481, 483; but that it does not include a village; Village of Depue v. Banschbach, 273 Ill. 574, 113 N.E. 156, 159.
In Medieval History
In the Middle Ages in Germany, fortified places in the enjoyment of market jurisdiction.
The German as well as the French cities are a creation of the Middle Ages; there was an organic connection with the Roman town system. Schroder, Lehrbuch des Deutchen Rechtsgeschichte 588.
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