Communia
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
or COMMUNIAE (Lat.) In old European law.
Communities.
Towns enfranchised by the crown, in most of the feu- I dal kingdoms of Europe, about the twelfth century, and formed into free corporations, by what were termed "charters of community." 1 Robertson, Hist. Charles V. 24-29, and notes in Appendix.