Legal Definition and Related Resources of Urbs
Meaning of Urbs
(Lat.) In civil law. A walled city. Often used for civitas. Ainsworth. It is the same as oppidum, only larger. Urbs, or urbs aurea, meant Rome. Du Cange. In the case of Rome, urbs included the suburbs. Dig. 50. 16. 2. pr. It is derived from urbum, a part of the plough by which the walls of a city are first marked out. Ainsworth.
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| Urbs in the Dictionary | Urbs in our legal dictionaries | Browse the Legal Thesaurus | Find synonyms and related words of Urbs |
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| Related topics | Urbs in the World Encyclopedia of Law |
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This definition of Urbs is based on the The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary . This entry needs to be proofread.
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Concept of “Urbs”
Traditional meaning of urbs in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) A walled city.
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Notes and References
- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Urbs”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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