Communia
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. In old European law.
Communities.
Towns enfranchised by the crown, in most of the feudal kingdoms of Europe, about the twelfth century, and formed into free corporations, by what were termed charters of community. 1 Robertson's Charles V. 24 — 29, and notes in Appendix.