Entry Ad Communem Legem
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In English law. A writ which lay in favor of the reversioner, when the tenant for term of life, tenant for term of 'another's life, tenant by the curtesy, or tenant in dower, had aliened and died. Tomlins. praeteriit lies where a man leases land to another for a term of years, and the tenant holds over his term. And if lands be leased to a man for the term of another's life, and he for whose life the lands are leased dies, and the lessee holds over, then the lessor shall have this writ. Termes de la Ley.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Entry ab common law. The name of a writ of entry which lay for areversioner after the alienation and death of the particular tenant for life, against him who was in possession of the land. Brown. ENTRY AD TERMINUM QUI