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Communia

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

[plur. of communis, q. v.] Lat.

In old English law

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

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