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Civts

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

Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)