A lien by a municipal corporation against a property owner for the owner’s proportionate share of a public improvement that specially and individually benefits the owner. [Cases: Municipal Corporations 519. C.J.S. Municipal Corporations §§ 1388–1389, 1391–1392.]
solicitor. 1. A person who seeks business or contributions from others; an advertiser or promoter. 2. A person who conducts matters on another’s behalf; an agent or representative. 3. The chief law officer of a governmental body or a municipality. [Cases: Municipal Corporations 169. C.J.S. Municipal Corporations § 371.] 4. In the United Kingdom, a
recorder. 1. Hist. A magistrate with criminal jurisdiction in some British cities or boroughs. 2. A municipal judge with the criminal jurisdiction of a magistrate or a police judge and sometimes also with limited civil jurisdiction. 3. A municipal or county officer who keeps public records such as deeds, liens, and judgments. court recorder. A
superficiarius (s[y]oo-p[schwa]r-fish-ee-air-ee-[schwa]s), n. [Latin] Roman law. A person who had a hereditary and alienable right to a building on municipal or other public land, subject to the payment of an annual rent. • In classical law this right was extended to private land. Cf. EMPHYTEUSIS.