MUNICIPIUM

By SovConn | May 31, 2013

municipium (myoo-n<<schwa>>-sip-ee-<<schwa>>m), n. [Latin “free town”] Roman law. A self-governing town; specif., any community allied with or conquered by Rome and allowed to maintain certain privileges (such as maintaining separate laws called leges municipales). • The members of a municipium were also Roman citizens. Pl. municipia (myoo-ni-sip-ee-<<schwa>>).

[Blacks Law 8th]

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