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Definition of Municipality

1. Noun. An urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government.

2. Noun. People living in a town or city having local self-government.

Definition of Municipality

1. n. A municipal district; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.

Definition of Municipality

1. Noun. A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Municipality

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Municipality

municipal bond municipal borough municipal center municipal corporation municipal corporations municipal engineering municipal government municipal hospital municipal incorporation municipal incorporations

municipal note municipal solid waste municipalism municipalisms municipalities municipality municipalize municipalized municipalizes municipalizing

municipally municipals municycling municyclings munific munificence munificences munificent munificently munified

Literary usage of Municipality

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of the Law of Private Corporations by William Meade Fletcher (1919)
"—Regulating rates outside municipality. Of course, « municipality cannot regulate rates as to corporations outside of the municipal limits.60 However, ..."

2. Comparative Administrative Law: An Analysis of the Administrative Systems by Frank Johnson Goodnow (1893)
"Since the beginning of its history the American municipality has developed in ... In the first place the position of the municipality and the duties to be ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"A municipality cannot be held liable upon an implied contract for the value of any benefits received by it under a contract made with one of its officials, ..."

4. The Statutes of Nova Scotia by Nova Scotia (1892)
"The municipality of Queens, in the province of Nova Scotia, will pay, at the office of the treasurer of said municipality, to or order, the sum of dollars, ..."

5. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1911)
"is no limitation of the power to contract, the municipality may modify an ... Capacity in which Municipality acts in furnishing: or contracting for Water or ..."

6. Biennial Report by West Virginia. Tax commissioner, Washington (State). Dept. of Highways (1912)
"Municipality (Reno District.) 1911 1912 B. & ORR Co $ 71000.00 ... MILLS Municipality (Grant District.) Bruceton Telephone Co $ 161.00 $ 150.00 Totale for ..."

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