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hometown
the town or city where a person was born or grew up or has his principal residence as he never
Circuits
precisely fixed periods, to administer justice in the several counties. Two judges, until 1884, attended at each circuit town, when by a new scheme set on foot by the 'Circuits Order' of that year it was arranged
Labourers' dwellings
Classes Lodging Houses and Dwelling Houses Acts, 1851, 1866, and 1867. These Acts might be 'adopted' by the town council of a borough and other local authorities. Upon the adoption of the Acts, corporate land might be
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Municipal corporation
Municipal corporation. A body of persons in a town having the powers of acting as one person, of holding and transmitting property, and of regulating the government
Selectman
One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the New England States to transact the general public business of the town and
Gilda mercatoria
to incorporate them, 10 Rep 30. A guild merchant was an incorporated society of the merchants of a town or city having exclusive rights of trading within the town. In many English towns and in the royal
Guildhall
for the meeting of the corporation in order to make laws for the regulation of the city or town, and to administer summary justice. See TOWN HALL.
Urban land
any areas included within the local limits of a municipality (by whatever name called), a notified area committee, town area committee. A city and town committee, a small town committee, a cantonment board or a panchayat, but
Borough
In England an incorporated town that is not a city also a town that sends members to parliament in Scotland a body corporate
Borough
Borough, originally a walled town or other fortified place. In the (English) Reform Act, 1832, by s. 79, the word means a town
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