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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 writ by which a reversioner secured possession on the death of the particular tenant.

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