: 'City rights' redirects here. See also: municipal charter.
Town privileges or city rights were important features of European towns during most of the second millennium.

Judicially, a town was distinguished from the surrounding land by means of a charter from the ruling monarch that defined its privileges and laws. Common privileges were related to trading (to have a market, to store goods, etc.) and the establishment of guilds. Some of these privileges were permanent and could imply that the town obtained the right to be called a city, hence the term city rights (stadtrecht in German). Some degree of self-government, representation in a diet, and tax-relief could also be granted.

See also

• German town law

• Kulm law

• Lübeck law

• Magdeburg rights

• Confoederatio cum principibus ecclesiasticis

• City rights in the Low Countries

• City status in the United Kingdom

• City status in Sweden

• Imperial free city

• Scottish Burgh

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