The commoners, or tenants and inhabitants, who have the right of common or commonlng in open field. Cowell

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

In Scotch law. Land possessed in common by different proprietors, or by those having acquired rights of servitude. Bell.

the public welfare and the common good .

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, […]

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 […]

Staying or abiding; dwelling temporarily in a place

Several persons who perish at the same time in consequence of the same calamity.

A contribution which was gathered at marriages, and when young priests said or sung the first masses. Prohibited by 2G Hen. VIII. c. 6. Cowell.

Half a cantred or hundred In Wales, containing fifty vilages. Also a great seignory or lordship, and may include one or divers manors. Co. Litt 5.

A “civil commotion” Is an insurrection of the people for general purposes, though it may not amount to re- COMMUNE 229 COMMUNIS OPINIO belllon where there is a usurped power […]

The common council of the realm. One of the names of the English parliament .

The common place of justice. The seat of the principal courts, especially those that are fixed.

In old English law . A common plea or civil action , such as an action of debt

A common or mutual bond. Applied to the common stock of consanguinity , and to the feodal bond of fealty, as the common bond of union between lord and tenant. […]

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 […]

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 old English law . Common things, res communes. Such as running water, the air, the sea, and sea shores. Bract, fol. 75.

In old English law . Common pleas or actions; those between one subject and another, as distinguished from pleas of the crown.

An ancient writ directed to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer , forbidding them to hold pleas between common persons (i. e.. not debtors to the king, who alone […]

In ordinary years; on the annual average

part of the health code that requires physicians to report any outbreaks of contagious and communicable diseases. See contagious diseases.

Information given; the sharing of knowledge by one with another ; conference; consultation or bargaining preparatory to making a contract. Also intercourse ; connection