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CIVIS Definition & Legal Meaning

Definition & Citations:

Lat. In the Roman law. A citizen ; as distinguished from incola, (an inhabitant;) origin or birth constituting the former, domicile the latter. Code, 10, 40, 7. And see U. S. v. Rhodes, 27 Fed. Cas. 788.

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