Definition of County corporate. Meaning of County corporate. Synonyms of County corporate

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Definition of County corporate

County corporate
3. A count; an earl or lord. [Obs.] --Shak. County commissioners. See Commissioner. County corporate, a city or town having the privilege to be a county by itself, and to be governed by its own sheriffs and other magistrates, irrespective of the officers of the county in which it is situated; as London, York, Bristol, etc. [Eng.] --Mozley & W. County court, a court whose jurisdiction is limited to county. County palatine, a county distinguished by particular privileges; -- so called a palatio (from the palace), because the owner had originally royal powers, or the same powers, in the administration of justice, as the king had in his palace; but these powers are now abridged. The counties palatine, in England, are Lancaster, Chester, and Durham. County rates, rates levied upon the county, and collected by the boards of guardians, for the purpose of defraying the expenses to which counties are liable, such as repairing bridges, jails, etc. [Eng.] County seat, a county town. [U.S.] County sessions, the general quarter sessions of the peace for each county, held four times a year. [Eng.] County town, the town of a county, where the county business is transacted; a shire town.

Meaning of County corporate from wikipedia

- county corporate or corporate county was a type of subnational division used for local government in England, Wales, and Ireland. Counties corporate were...
- were counties corporate, which gave them the right to appoint their own sheriffs and hold their own courts. Whilst in theory the counties corporate could...
- from the jurisdiction of the counties that surrounded them. These towns and cities had the status of a county corporate, often granted by royal charter...
- status of self-governing counties separate from adjacent counties. Such a county became known as a county corporate or "county of itself". For most practical...
- considered 'county level' authorities. Today, these have largely replaced the historic county corporate entities granted self-governance with county government...
- the 18 counties corporate (before 1889), each of which was an administrative county for a single town or city, within a larger "county-at-large". Toponymical...
- county was subdivided into smaller administrative areas; the city of York was a self-governing county corporate from 1396, and the rest of the county...
- Something Corporate (also known as SoCo) is an American rock band from Laguna Niguel, Orange County, California, formed in 1998. Their currently active...
- 1965. The county was the second smallest of the historic counties of England, after Rutland. The City of London became a county corporate in the 12th...
- The County of the City of Coventry was a county corporate of England which existed between 1451 and 1842. The county corporate covered an area of around...