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  • COMMORANCY
    The dwelling in any place as an inhabitant; which consists in usually lying there. 4 Bl. Comm. 273. In American law it is used to denote a mere temporary residence. Ames v. WInsor, 19 Pick. (Mass.) 248; Pullen v. Monk, .82 Me. 412, 19 Atl. 909; Oilman v. Inman, 85 More...
  • COMMORANT
    Staying or abiding; dwelling temporarily in a place.
  • COMMORIENTES
    Several persons who perish at the same time in consequence of the same calamity.
  • COMMORTH, OR COMORTH
    A contribution which was gathered at marriages, and when young priests said or sung the first masses. Prohibited by 26 Hen. VIII. c. 6 Cowell.
  • COMMOTE
    Half a cantred or hundred In Wales, containing fifty vllages. Also a great seignory or lordship, and may include one or divers manors. Co. Litt 5.
  • COMMOTION
    A "civil commotion" is an insurrection of the people for general purposes, though it may not amount to re- bellion where there is a usurped power. 2 Marsh. Ins. 798; Boon v. Insurance Co., 40 Conn. 584; Grame v. Assur. Soc, 112 U. S. 273, 5 Sup. Ct 150, 28 More...
  • COMMUNE
    n. A self-governing town or village. The name given to the committee of the people in the French revolution of 1793; and again, in the revolutionary uprising of 1871, it signified the attempt to establish absolute self-government in Paris, or the mass of those concerned in the attempt In old More...
  • COMMUNE
    adj. Lat. Common. —Commune concilium regni. The common council of the realm. One of the names of the English parliament.—Commune forum. The common place of justice. The seat of the principal courts, especially those that are fixed. —Commune plaeitum. In old English law. A common plea or civil action, such More...
  • COMMUNI CUSTODIA
    In English law. An obsolete writ which anciently lay for the lord, whose tenant, holding by knight's service, died, and left his eldest son under age, against a stranger that entered the land, and obtained the ward of the body. Reg Orig. 161. .
  • COMMUNI DIVIDUNDO
    In the civil law. An action which lies for those who have property in common, to procure a division. It lies where parties hold land in common but not in partnership. Calvin.
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