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Common assurances

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

The several modes or instruments of conveyance established or authorized by the law of England. Calied "common" because thereby every man's estate is assured to him.

2 Bl. Comm. 294.

The legal evidences of the translation of property, whereby every person's estate is assured to him, and all controversies, doubts, and difficulties are either prevented or removed.

Wharton.