District \Dis"trict\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Districted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Districting}.] To divide into districts or limited portions of territory; as, legislatures district States for the choice of representatives.
District \Dis"trict\, a. [L. districtus, p. p.] Rigorous; stringent; harsh. [Obs.]
Punishing with the rod of district severity. --Foxe.
District \Dis"trict\, n. [LL. districtus district, fr. L. districtus, p. p. of distringere: cf. F. district. See {Distrain}.] 1. (Feudal Law) The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing.
2. A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc.
To exercise exclusive legislation . . . over such district not exceeding ten miles square. --The Constitution of the United States.
3. Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract.
These districts which between the tropics lie. --Blackstone.
{Congressional district}. See under {Congressional}.
{District attorney}, the prosecuting officer of a district or district court.
{District court}, a subordinate municipal, state, or United States tribunal, having jurisdiction in certain cases within a judicial district.
{District judge}, one who presides over a district court.
{District school}, a public school for the children within a school district. [U.S.]
Riots erupted for a third night in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, with violence centering on the city's mixed-race district.
The case has been turned over to the district attorney's office, Police Chief Bruce Beaty said.
With just 3,000 employees, the service is smaller than the New York City Police Department, Morris said, yet its ranks are stationed in every U.S. judicial district from Guam to the Virgin Islands.
In New York's garment district, work sometimes comes to a halt as word of yet another AIDS death spreads across Seventh Avenue.
Before his election as attorney general in 1982, Van de Kamp served seven years as Los Angeles County district attorney, five years as federal public defender and two years as assistant federal public defender in Los Angeles.
Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has previously accused the Justice Department of refusing to cooperate in his investigation of BCCI.
But the plan for Philadelphia's business-improvement district hatched long before the fiscal crisis flared.
No one was injured in the blast, which occurred Saturday night in the city's Intramuros district.
"The point is, she received benefits as a basis of being married to this man," said Berion Mouton, Social Security assistant district manager.
Police said an unknown number of rebels were wounded in the firefight, in the Pasos district 15 miles south of Huancayo.
Zhang Xuexin, a waiter at the Good Taste Restaurant in the Happy Valley district, expressed the feelings of many: "I'm terrified of what will happen when the Communists come.
In particular, the thrift industry and its associated construction contractors reached into every congressional district.
"To me, there's a little irony that a favorite prehistoric campsite has become one of our biggest campgrounds today," said Michael Beckes, regional archaeologist for the U.S. Forest Service's eastern district.
The consent decree filed in federal district court in Cleveland and made public yesterday requires LTV to bring the two plants into compliance with the Clean Water Act within 30 days after the decree is finalized, probably within a month.
The problem, according to Richard F. Wenzel, assistant director of transportation for the district, is state law.
He said it would cost only $700 to connect to the corner tap, and that district commissioners offered to come out on their own time and dig the ditch.
Mautner's office said the district attorney may seek the order as early as Wednesday.
A spokeswoman for Northern States Power said the company asked the district court in Hennepin County, Minn., to resolve a contract-interpretation dispute between the two companies.
We've got an emergency," said Perry Rivkind, district director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Piete said residents in West Berlin's Zehlendorf district reported seeing a balloon about 7:50 a.m. floating into the city over the wall.
Los Angeles drug gangs are spreading cocaine and violence in cities nationwide and may become a new form of organized crime unless they are stopped soon, the Los Angeles County district attorney warns.
A federal district court in California issued a preliminary injunction against Home Box Office's HBO Video division in November, prohibiting it from distributing the tapes until the legal dispute between Vestron and Hemdale is resolved.
A grand jury may be asked to investigate possible criminal wrongdoing related to last week's crash of the Boeing 737-400 at the end of a LaGuardia Airport runway that killed two passengers, according to a source in the Queens district attorney's office.
Pepper had represented the 18th district since it was created in 1962.
Now that a state school district has been created, Jersey City's local board of education is abolished and the school superintendent as well as several other top administrators were ousted.
Three powerful bombs exploded in a fashionable district of Athens before dawn Thursday, and police said one person was slightly injured.
An estimated 19 House seats will move from northern and midwestern industrial states to the Sun Belt before 1992, and millions have been spent to maximize each party's strength in the state legislatures that will redraw the House district boundaries.
Leon de Beer, who last week began a two-year prison term for engaging in electoral fraud in his 1987 campaign in Johannesburg's Hillbrow district.
The district made up of "Old Metairie" is flanked on one side by an exclusive country club and the million-dollar mansions of Northline Drive and on the other by what was a fishing village before urban sprawl.
"Indications are that this is linked to the other seven and we do in fact have our eighth victim in the highway murders," said Jim Martin, a spokesman for the district attorney.