The public or common good or welfare. As to common “Bail,” “Barretor,” “Carrier,” “Chase,” “Council,” “Counts,” “Diligence,” “Day,” “Debtor,” “Drunkard.” “Error,” “Fishery,” “Highway,” “Informer,” “Inn,” “Intendment,” “Intent,” “Jury,” “Labor,” “Nuisance,” […]

A woman who was party to a “common-law marriage.” as above defined: or one who, having lived with a man in a relation of concubinage during his life, asserts a […]

One possessing the characteristics or fulfilling the requirements or n i.,ortgage at common law ; not known in Louisiana, where the civil law prevails; but such a mortgage made in […]

A civil suit, as distinguished from a criminal prosecution or a proceeding to enforce a penalty or a police regulation ; not necessarily an action which would lie at common […]

Such forms of assignments for the benefit of creditors as were known to the common law, as distinguished from such as are of modern invention or authorized by statute. Ontario […]

The obtaining of money or property by means of a false token, symbol, or device; this being the definition of a cheat or “cheating” at common law . State v. […]

In, England, those administering the common law- Equitable L. Assur. Soc. v. Paterson, 41 Ga. 304, 5 Am. Rep. 535

One punishable by the force of the common law, as distinguished from crimes created by statute. In re Greene (C. C.) 52 Fed. 104.

Such crimes as are punishable by the force of the common law , as distinguished from crimes created by statute. Wilkins v. U. S., _ 96 Fed. 837, 37 C. […]

the term that is given to a man who is cohabiting and living with a woman who have not been joined by marriage. See common-law wife .

Jurisdiction of a court to try and decide such cases as were cognizable by the courts of law under the English common law ; the jurisdiction of those courts which […]

One known, to or granted by the common law, as distinguished from statutory, equitable, and maritime liens; also one arising by implication of law, as distinguished from one created by […]

One not solemnized in the ordinary way, but created by an agreement to marry, followed by cohabitation ; a consummated agreement to marry, between a man and a woman, per […]

Three acts of parliament , passed in the years 1852, 1854. and I860, respectively , for the amendment of the procedure in the common-law courts . The common-law procedure act […]

the civil suit where the owner is seeking to regain the possession of his property that is taken or is being held by another.

the term that is given to a woman who is cohabiting and living with a man who have not been joined by marriage. See common-law husband .

A document that takes the balance sheet and uses percentage and not dollar figures.

When financial statement are expressed as percents for easier comparison. It allows pertical analysis. Refer to comparative financial statement .

A document that shows income in percent rather than dollars.

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. & […]

See TENANTS IN COMMON .

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 […]

In old deeds. The right of common. See COMMON.

The difference between machines that allows interchangeablility. They must be used either together or seperate.

In English 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 , […]