In Spanish law. People; all the inhabitants of any country or place, without distinction. A town, township, or municipality . White, New Itecop. b. 2, tit. 1, c. 6, I 4. This term “pueblo,” in its original signification , means “people” or “population,” but is used in the sense of the English word “town.” It has the indefiniteness of that term, and, like it, is sometimes applied to a mere collection of individuals residing at a particular place, a settlement or village, as well as to a regularly organized municipality. Trenouth v. San Francisco, 100 U. S. 251, 25 L. Ed. 626.
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