What is CIVITAS? Definition of CIVITAS in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
Lat. 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. Civitates fcederatce, towns in alliance with Rome, and considered to be free. Butl.Hor.Jur. 29.
Citizenship; one of the three status, conditions, or qualifications of persons. Mackeld.Rom.Law, § 131.
A term in the Anglo Saxon land books, commonly applied to Worcester, Canterbury and other such places, which are both bishop's sees and the head places of large districts. Maitland, Domesday and Beyond 183. See 17 L.Q.R. 274. Oxford Dict. s. v. City. See City.
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