Mayor, *officer. The chief or executive magistrate of a city who bears this title.

2. It is generally his duty to cause the laws of the city to be enforeed, and to superintend inferior officers, such as constables, watchmen and the like. But the power and authority which mayors possess being given to them by local regulations, vary in different places.

* From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, 1856 Edition. Please see Bouvier's Legal Abbreviations & Abbreviated References for help with obscure nomenclature & references.

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