A society or association of persons, in considerable number, interested in a common object, and uniting themselves for the prosecution of some commercial or industrial undertaking, or other legitimate business. Mills v. State, 23 Tex. 303; Smith ▼. Janesville, 52 W18. 680, 9 N. W. 789
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All klnds of food, ex-cept bread and drink. Spelman
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An English statute, (8 Vlct c. 16,) passed in 1845, which consolidated the clauses of previous laws still remalning in force on the subject of public companies. It is considered as incorporated into all sub-sequent acts authorizing tbe executios. of
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An agreement or contract. Usually applled to conventions between na-tlons or soverelgn states
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A name given to pro-posed systems of life or social organization based upon the fundamental principle of the non-existence of private property and of a community of goods in a society
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A society of people liv-Ing in the same place, under the same laws and regulations, and who have common rights and privileges. In re Huss, 126 N. Y. 537, 27 N. E. 784, 12 L. R. A. 620; Gilman v. Dwight, 13 Gray (Mass.) 356, 74 Am. Dec. 634; Cunningham v. Underwood, 116 Fed. 803, 53 0. 0. A. 99; Berkson v. Railway Co., 144 Mo. 211, 45 S. W. 1119
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In old Eng-lish law. A common writing; a writing common to both parties; a chirograph. Gian, llb. 8, c. 1
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A common stock of descent; a common ancestor
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In the civil law. A common or party wail. Dig. 8, 2, 8, 13
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In old Eng-iish law. A common scold, (q. v.) 4 Bl. Comm. 168
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In the civil law. A term signifying a community (q. v.) of goods
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In Scotch law. The right enjoyed by married persons in the movable goods belonging to them. Bell
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Information given; the sharing of knowledge by one with another; conference; consultation or bargaining preparatory to making a contract. Also intercourse; connection.
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In Scotch law. The negotiations preliminary to the entering into a contract
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An ancient writ directed to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, forbidding them to hold pleas between common persons (i. e., not debtors to the king, who alone originally sued and were sued there) in that court, where neither of the parties belonged to the same. Reg. orig. 187
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In ordinary years; on the annual average
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In old English law. Common things, res communes. Such as running water, the air, the sea, and sea shores. Bract foL 7b
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In old Engllsh law. Common pleas or actions; those between one subject and another, as dlstin-gnished from pleas of the crown
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A “civil commotton" is nn insurrection bf the people for general purposes, though it may not amount to re
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In English law. An obsolete writ which anciently lay for the lord, whose tenant, holding by knight’s service, died, nnd left his eldest son under age, against a stranger that entered the land, and obtained the ward of the body. Reg orig. 161.
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H, or COMORTH. A contrl-bution which was gathered at marriages, and when young priests said or sung the first masses. Prohibited by 26 Hen. VIIL c. 6. CowelL
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Half a cantred or hundred In wales, containing fifty vllages. Also a great seignory or lordship, and may include one or divers manors. Co. Litt 5
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