Common Assurances
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
The several modes or instruments of conveyance established or authorized by the law of England. Called commont because thereby every man's estate is assured to him.
2 Bl. Com. 294.
See Assurance. Sheppard's celebrated treatise on the law of conveyances is called the "Touchstone of common assurances.*'