Commune
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A self-governing town 01 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 inthe attempt. In old French law, it signified any municipal corporation. And in old English law, the commonalty or commen people.