Mayor: alternatives and connections

A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank a…

A magistrate in ancient Rome, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc.; hence, a municipal officer.

(law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decis…

The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, ei…

Chief physician; -- a term applied, on the continent of Europe, to the first or body physician of princes and to the first physician o…

A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland.

In Spain and Spanish America, a corporation or body of magistrates in cities and towns, corresponding to mayor and aldermen.

Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or…

The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.

The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable.

A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services re…

An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough.

A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough.

A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.

A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly.

a careful study of some social unit (as a corporation or division within a corporation) that attempts to determine what factors led to…

An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in…

The Greek major third, which comprehend two major tones (the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone).