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  • COMMON RECOVERY
    In conveyancing. A species of common assurance, or mode of conveying lands by matter of record, formerly in frequent use in England. It was in the nature and form of an action at law, carried regularly through, and ending in a recovery of the lands against the tenant of the More...
  • COMMONABLE
    Entitled to common. Commonable beasts are either beasts of the plow, as horses and oxen, or such as manure the land, as kine and sheep. Beasts not commonable are swine, goats, and the like. Co. litt 122a; 2 Bl. Comm. 33.
  • COMMONAGE
    In old deeds. The right of common. See COMMON.
  • COMMONALTY
    In Engllsn law. The great body of citizens; the mass of the people, excluding the nobility. In American law. The body of people composing a municipal corporation, excluding the corporate officers.
  • COMMONANCE
    The commoners, or tenants and inhabitants, who have the right of common or commoning in open field. CowelL
  • COMMONERS
    In English law. Persons having a right of 'common. So called because they have a right to pasture On the waste, in common with the lord. 2 H. Bl. 889.
  • COMMONS
    1. The class of subjects in Great Britain exclusive of the royal family and the nobility. They are represented in parliament by the house of commons. 2. Part of the demesne land of a manor, (or land the property of which was in the lord,) which, being uncultivated, was termed More...
  • COMMONS HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
    In the English parliament The lower house, so called because the commons of the realm, that is, the knights, citizens, and burgesses returned to parliament representing the whole body of the commons, sit there.
  • COMMONTY
    In Scotch law. Land possessed in common by different proprietors, or by those having acquired rights of servitude, Bell.
  • COMMONWEALTH
    The public or common weal or welfare. This cannot be regarded as a technical term of public law, though often used in political science. It generally designates, when so employed, a republican frame of government—one in which the welfare and rights of the entire mass of people are the main More...
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