An incorporeal hereditament which consists in a profit which one man has in connection with one or more others in the land of another. Trustees v. Robinson, 12 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 31; Van Rensselaer v. Radcliff. 10 Wend. (N. Y.) 047. 25 Am. Dec. 582; Watts v. Coffin, 11 Johns. (N. Y.) 498. Common, in English law , is an incorporeal right which lies in grant, originally commencing on some agreement between lords and tenants, which by time has been formed into prescription , and continues good, al- BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)
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