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city noun megalopolis, metropolis, metropolitan area, municipality, polis, urban district, urban place, urbs
Associated concepts: city attorney, city council, city court, city districts, city employee, city hall, city limits, city marrhal, city officer, city purpose, municipal corporations
See also: community

CITY, government. A town incorporated by that name. Originally, this word did not signify a town, but a portion of mankind who lived under the same government: what the Romans called civitas, and, the Greeks polis; whence the word politeia, civitas seu reipublicae status et administratio. Toull. Dr. Civ. Fr. 1. 1, t. 1, n. 202; Henrion de Pansey, Pouvoir Municipal, pp. 36, 37.



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If William died without issue, the properties were to go to another son, John, on condition that within one year he pay [pound sterling]200 to a third son, Thomas; if John did not do so, then Thomas could "enter into all that my messuage or Tenement Comonlie called the Crosse Keyes Scituate lyinge and beinge in Gracyous streete wth in the saide cittie of London.
Thus Donne's father's will specifically states: "I will that all my goods and Chattells, plate, householde stuffe, Redie money and debtes and all other my moveable goods and Chattells whatsoever shalbe devided into three equall and indifferent partes and Portions according to the laudable use and custome of the Cittie of London"; one-third of his wealth was to "goeth withall equallie amongst all my said children equallie porcion and porcion like": quoted in Bald, 560 (emphasis added).
Kupperman goes on to situate Jamestown in relation to other English interests across the globe in her informative chapter 6, "A Welter of Colonial Projects," before finally giving us a picture of Jamestown in three stages that correspond to her concluding three chapters: "Jamestown's Uncertain Beginnings," "The Project Revised," and "James Cittie in Virginia.
 
 
 
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