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Communis

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Kinney (1893), Anderson (1889), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Common.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

Z. Common. Communis error: a ion or practice which has commonly been originally perhaps without adequate foundation common error makes law, i. e. sometimes munis opinio: common opinjon; general V. A communi, etc.

In old English law. Communis bancus: the cus; Common pleas. Communis rixatrix: munis scrip tnra: a common writing; a parties; a chirograph. Communis stipes: of descent; a common ancestor. Communis In the civil law. Communis paries: a common

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

See Error, 1, Communis.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

commune, I. regni: the common council of mune placitum: a common vinculum: a mutual bond. common. Communia piscariae, mon of piscary, turbary, pasture, cita: common pleas, as opposed actions, pleas of the crown. common error makes law. scold. Communis strata: a annis: in common years, on an legem: v. Ad.

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

Lat. Common. Communis rixatrix; a common scold. 4 Bl. Com. 168. Communis scriptura; a common writing, or writing common to both parties; a chirograph. Olanv. lib. 8, c. 1. Communis strata; a common street. Stat. Marlbr. c. 15. 1 Stra. 44.