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CENSITUS

Volume 6 · 90 words · 1860 Edition

a person censed or entered in the tables of the census. In an ancient monument found at Ancyra, containing the actions of the Emperor Octavius (Augustus), we read—

``` Quo iustro civium Romanorum Censita sunt capitae quadrages Centum millia et sexaginta tria: ```

or that the number of Roman citizens entered in the censor's rolls was then upwards of 4,000,000.

CENSITUS is also used in the civil law for a servile sort of tenant who pays capitulation to his lord for the lands he holds of him. See *CAPITAE Censi*.