Staying or abiding; dwelling temporarily In a place
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Several persons who perish at the same time in consequence of the same calamity
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In the English parliament The lower house, so called because the commons of the realm, that is, the knights, citizens, and burgesses returned to parliament, representing the whole body of the commons, sit there
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In Scotch law. Land possessed in common by different proprietors, or by those having acquired rights of servitude. Belt
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in English law. Per* sons having a right of common. So called because they have a right to pasture on the waste, in common with the lord. 2 H. Bl. 889
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1. The class of subjects in Great Britain exclusive of the royal family and the nobility. They are represented in parliament by the house of commons
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The commoners, or tenants and inhabitants, who have the right of common or coinmoning in open field. CoweU
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Entitled to common. Commonable beasts are either beasts of the plow, as horses and oxen, or such as manure the land, as kine and sheep. Beasts not commonable are swlne, goats, and the like. Co. Litt 122d; 2 Bl. Comm. 33
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In old deeds. The right of common. See Common
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Tbe name of a conrt of record having general original jurisdic-tlon in civil suits
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In conveyanc-Ing. A species of common assurance, or mode of conveying lands by matter of record, formerly in frequent use in England. It was in the nature and form of an action at law, carried regularly through, and ending in a recovery of the lands against the ten-ant of the freehold; which recovery, being a supposed adjudication of the right, bound all persons, and vested a free and absolute fee-slmple in the recoverer. 2 Bl. Comm. 357. Christy v. Burch, 25 Fla. 942, 2 South. 258. Common recoveries were abolished by the statutes 3 & 4 wm. IV. c. 74
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ses the body of those principles and rules of action, relating to the govern-ment and security of persons and property, which derive their authority solely from usages and customs of immemorial antiquity, or from the judgments and decrees of the courts recognizlng, affirming, and enforcing snch usages and customs; and, in this sense, particularly the ancient unwritten law of England, western Unlon Tel. Co. v. Call Pub. CO., 181 U. S. 92, 21 Sup. Ct 561, 45 I* Ed. 765; State v. Buchannn, 5 Har. & J. (Md.) 365, 0 Am. Dec. 534; Lux v. Haggin, 69 Cal. 255, 10 Pac. 674; Barry v. Port Jer-vls, 64 App. Dlv. 268, 72 N. Y. Supp. 104
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The English conrt of common pleas was formerly so called. Its original title appears to have been simply “The Bench,” but it was designated “Common Bench” to distinguish it from the “King’s Bench,” and because in it were tried nnd determined the causes of common persons, i. e., causes between subject and sub-ject, in which the crown had no interest
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1. As distinguished from the Roman law, the modern civil law. the canon law, and other systems, the com-mon law is that body of law and Jurlstic theory which was originated, developed, and formulated and is administered in England, and has obtained among most of the states and peoples of Anglo-Saxon stock. Lux v. Haggin, 69 Cal. 255, 10 Pac. 674
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In pleadlng. (other-wise called, “blank bar.”) A plea to compel the plalntlff to assign the particular place where the trespass has been committed. Steph. Pl. 256
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In the civil law. He who lends to another a thing for a definite time, to be enjoyed and used under certain conditions, without any pay or reward, is called "commodans;” the person who re-ceives the thing is called “commodatarius," and the contract is called "commodatum.” It differs from locatio and conductio, in this: that the use of the thing is gratuitous. Dig. 13, 6; Inst. 3, 2, 14; Story, Bailm. S 221. Coggs v. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. 909; Adams v. Mortgage Co., 82 Miss. 263, 34 South. 482, 17 L. R. A. (N. S.) 138, 100 Am. St Rep. 633; world’s Columbian Exposition Co. v. Repub-lic of France, 96 Fed. 693, 38 0. C. A. 483
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As an adjective, this word denotes usual, ordinary, accustomed; shared amongst several; owned by several Jolntly. State v.. o’Conner, 49 Me. 596; Eoen v. State, 35 Neb. 676, 53 N. W. 695, 17 L. R. A. 821; Aymette v. State, 2 Humph. (Tenn.) 154
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Lat. In the civil law. An action of loan; an action for a thing lent. An actlon glven for the recov-ery of a thing loaned, (commodatum,) and not returned to the lender, Inst 3, 15, 2; Id. 4, 1,16
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In Spanish law. A con-tract by which one person lends gratuitous* ly to another some object not consumable, to be restored to him in kind at a given period; the same contract as commodatum, (ff. v
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In the civil law. The mixing together or confusion of things, dry or solid, belonging to different owners, as dis-tinguished from confusio, which has relation to liquids
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In practice. To send a per-son to prison by virtue of a lawful authori-ty, for any crime or contempt, or to an asy-lum, workhouse, reformatory, or the like, hy authority of a court or magistrate. People v. Beach, 122 Cal. 37, 54 Pac. 369; Cummlngton v. wareham, 9 Cush. (Mass.) 585; French v. Bancroft, 1 Metc. (Mass.) 502; People v. warden, 73 App. Dlv. 174, 76 N. Y. Supp. 728
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In practice. An assembly or board of persons to whom the consideration or management of any matter is com-mitted or referred by some court. Lloyd v. Hart, 2 Pa. 473, 45 Am. Dec. 612; Farrar v. Eastman, 5 Me. 345
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Caused by or consisting in acts of commission, as distinguished from neglect, sufferance, or toleration; as in the phrase “commissive waste,” which is con-trusted with “permissive waste.” See waste
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