Common Vouchee

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.).