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Common Vouchee

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Burrill (1850)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In common recoveries, the person who is vouched to warranty. In this fictitious proceeding, the crier of the court usually performs the office of a common vouchee. 2 Bl. Comm. 358; 2 Bouv. Inst, note 2093. COMMON WEAL (fr. common (q. v.) and weal, fr. As wela, wealth, prosperity; cp. Commonwealth.) 1. The common wellbeing; the common good; the public welfare. "The law favoreth things for the common weal. A man may justify the doing of a wrong in things that sound for the common weal. As, in time of war, to make bulwarks in another man's soil, without license; to raze one's house on fire, in safeguard of the neighbours' house," etc. (Finch, Law, b. 1, e. 3, 53.) 2. The whole body of the people; the body politic. In this sense equivalent to commonwealth {q. v.).

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

The fictitious party in an action of common recovery who was named by the tenant as, his warrantor and grantor.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

In common recoveries, the person who is vouched to warranty. In this fictitious proceeding the crier of the court usually performs the office of a common vouchee. 2 Bla. Com.::

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

The vouchee in common recoveries; the person vouched to warranty, or called on to defend the title of the tenant in those proceedings; called common because the same person, (viz. the crier of the court,) acted as vouchee in them all. 2 Bl. Com. 868, 369. See Vouchee,