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Definition :

City [fr. cite, Fr.], a town corporate, which has usually a bishop and cathedral church. It is called civitas, because it is governed by justice and order of magistracy; oppidum, for that it contains a great number of inhabitants; and urbs, because it is in due form begirt about with walls, Jac. Law Dict.

1. A municipal Corporation, usu. headed by a mayor and governed by a city council. 2. The territory within a city's corporate limit. 3. Collectively, the people who live within this territory, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.