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Definition of County seat
1. Noun. The town or city that is the seat of government for a county.
Definition of County seat
1. Noun. The city in which the offices of county government are located. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of County Seat
Literary usage of County seat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"... of all the votes cast in the county at such county seat election shall be in
favor of any town, such town shall thereafter be the county seat: Provided, ..."
2. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1860)
"From the county seat, in Izard county, to Dardanelle, and from thence, by the
county seat of Scott, to Zebulon, county seat of Pike, and thence to ..."
3. Pacific Reporter by West Publishing Company (1886)
"1363, 1364) to permanently locate the county-seat, no second election for such
a purpose could be held under any of the provisions of such act, ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"For removal of county seat under Pub. Loc. & Priv. Laws 1919, c. 263, there must
be a vote in favor of a particular place of a majority of the qualified ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"county seat in Dakota—judicial cognisance- limit of—contesting validity of ...
The designation of the county seat of a county in Dakota, or providing for ..."
6. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1888)
"An election upon the question of removal of the county-seat is not ... An election
for the removal of a county- seat cannot be legally held on the first ..."
7. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"county seat of Linn County, 15 Kan. 500; Bennetts. ... But when it specifies the
vote necessary to relocate the county seat at another ..."
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