This word is used to express the system of government pre-vailing in a country where the management of local matters is in the hands of function-aries appointed by the ministers of state, paid hy the state, and in constant communication and under the constant control and inspira-tlon of the ministers of state, and where the funds of the state are largely applied to local purposes, wharton
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
