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'City rights' redirects here. See also: municipal charter
Municipal charter

A city charter or town charter is a legal document establishing a municipality such as a city or town. The concept developed in Europe during the middle ages....
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Town privileges or city rights were important features of Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an town
Town

A town is a type of human settlement ranging from a few to several thousand inhabitants, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas; the precise meaning varies between countries and is not always a matter of legal definition....
s during most of the second millennium.

Judicially, a town was distinguished from the surrounding land by means of a charter
Charter

A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified....
 from the ruling monarch that defined its privilege
Privilege

A privilege—etymologically "private law" or law relating to a specific individual—is a special entitlement or immunity granted by a government or other authority to a restricted group, either by birth or on a conditional basis....
s and law
LAW

LAW may refer to:* Anti-tank warfare, e.g. the US Army M72 LAW or the British Army LAW 80*Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights ...
s. Common privileges were related to trading (to have a market, to store goods, etc.) and the establishment of guild
Guild

File:Windsorguildhall.jpgA guild is an association of artisan in a particular trade. The earliest guilds were formed as confraternities of workers....
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'City rights' redirects here. See also: municipal charter
Municipal charter

A city charter or town charter is a legal document establishing a municipality such as a city or town. The concept developed in Europe during the middle ages....
.


Town privileges or city rights were important features of Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an town
Town

A town is a type of human settlement ranging from a few to several thousand inhabitants, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas; the precise meaning varies between countries and is not always a matter of legal definition....
s during most of the second millennium.

Judicially, a town was distinguished from the surrounding land by means of a charter
Charter

A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified....
 from the ruling monarch that defined its privilege
Privilege

A privilege—etymologically "private law" or law relating to a specific individual—is a special entitlement or immunity granted by a government or other authority to a restricted group, either by birth or on a conditional basis....
s and law
LAW

LAW may refer to:* Anti-tank warfare, e.g. the US Army M72 LAW or the British Army LAW 80*Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights ...
s. Common privileges were related to trading (to have a market, to store goods, etc.) and the establishment of guild
Guild

File:Windsorguildhall.jpgA guild is an association of artisan in a particular trade. The earliest guilds were formed as confraternities of workers....
s. Some of these privileges were permanent and could imply that the town obtained the right to be called a city
City

A city is an urban area with a high population density and a particular administrative, legal, or historical status.Large industrialized cities generally have advanced systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, house, and transportation and more....
, hence the term city rights. Some degree of self-government, representation in a diet
Diet (assembly)

In politics, a diet is a formal deliberative assembly. The term is derived from Medieval Latin dietas, and ultimately comes from the Latin dies, "day"....
, and tax-relief could also be granted.

See also

  • German town law
    German town law

    German town law or German municipal concerns concerns town privileges used by many cities, towns, and villages throughout Central Europe and Eastern Europe during the Middle Ages....
  • Kulm law
  • Lübeck law
    Lübeck law

    The L?beck law was the constitution of a municipal form of government developed at L?beck in Schleswig-Holstein after it was made a Free Imperial City in 1226....
  • Magdeburg rights
    Magdeburg rights

    Magdeburg Rights or Magdeburg Law were a set of German town laws regulating the degree of internal autonomy within cities and villages granted with it by a local ruler....
  • Confoederatio cum principibus ecclesiasticis
    Confoederatio cum principibus ecclesiasticis

    The Confoederatio cum principibus ecclesiasticis of 26 April 1220 counts as one of the most important sources of law of the Holy Roman Empire on Germany territory....
  • City rights in the Low Countries
  • City status in the United Kingdom
    City status in the United Kingdom

    City status in the United Kingdom is granted by the British monarchy to a select group of communities. The holding of city status gives a settlement no special rights other than that of calling itself a "city"....
  • City status in Sweden
    City status in Sweden

    The Swedish language stad, which is the equivalent of both city and town has since 1971 in Sweden no administrative or legal significance, and even no commonly accepted definition....
  • Imperial free city
  • Scottish Burgh
    Burgh

    A Burgh is an Wiktionary:Autonomy corporate entity in Scotland, usually a town. This type of administrative division has existed since the 12th century, when David I of Scotland created the first Royal burghs....