Municipal

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Municipal \Mu*nic"i*pal\, a. [L. municipalis, fr. municipium a
     town, particularly in Italy, which possessed the right of
     Roman citizenship, but was governed by its own laws, a free
     town, fr. municeps an inhabitant of a free town, a free
     citizen; munia official duties, functions + capere to take:
     cf. F. municipal. Cf. {Immunity}, and {Capacoius}.]


     1. Of or pertaining to a city or a corporation having the
        right of administering local government; as, municipal
        rights; municipal officers.
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     2. Of or pertaining to a state, kingdom, or nation.
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              Municipal law is properly defined to be a rule of
              civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a
              state.                                --Blackstone.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  municipal
       adj 1: relating or belonging to or characteristic of a
              municipality; "municipal government"; "municipal
              bonds"; "a municipal park"; "municipal transportation"
       2: of or relating to the government of a municipality;
          "international law...only authorizes a belligerant to
          punish a spy under its municipal law"- J.L.kuntz

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  24 Moby Thesaurus words for "municipal":
     borough, burghal, citified, city, civic, civil, council, downtown,
     home, inland, internal, interurban, intestine, metropolitan,
     midtown, national, native, oppidan, parish, suburban, town, uptown,
     urban, village
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  MUNICIPAL. Strictly, this word applies only to what belongs to a city. Among 
  the Romans, cities were called municipia; these cities voluntarily joined 
  the Roman republic in relation to their sovereignty only, retaining, their 
  laws, their liberties, and their magistrates, who were thence called 
  municipal magistrates. With us this word has a more extensive meaning; for 
  example, we call municipal law, not the law of a city only, but the law of 
  the state. 1 Bl. Com. Municipal is used in contradistinction to 
  international; thus we say an offence against the law of nations is an 
  international offence, but one committed against a particular state or 
  separate community, is a municipal offence.