Commercial Railroads

Commercial railroads embrace all railroads for general freight and passenger trafl Sc between one town and another. 263 III. 206; 227 111. 496; 216 111. 528. COMMERCIUM (Lat.)

In the civil law. Commerce; business; trade; dealings in the way of purchase and sale; a contract. Dig. 49. 15. 16. The right to purchase or sell. Inst. 3. 20 2. COMMERCIUM JURE GENTIUM COMmune esse debet, et non In monopolium et privatum paucorum quaestum convertenduw. Commerce, by the law of nations, ought to be common, and not to be converted into a monopoly and the private gain of a few. Coke, 3d Inst. 181, in marg. COMMINALTY (Law Fr.) The commonalty or the people. St. Westminster I. 1, pr. COMMINATORIUM (from commonari, to threaten).

In old practice. A clause sometimes added at the end of writs, admonishing the sheriff to be faithful in executing them. Bracton, fol. 398.