Definition of Commonalty

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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Commonalty
    Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    The common people as distinguished from peers. See 1 Bl. Comm. 403.

  • Commonalty
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    In English law. The great body of citizens; the mass of the people, excluding the nobility. In American law. The body of people composing a municipal corporation, excluding the corporate officers.